Tajik

noun

Ta·​jik tä-ˈjik 

tə-,

-ˈjēk 

variants or Tadzhik

1

: a member of a Persian-speaking ethnic group living in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and adjacent areas of central Asia

2

: the form of Persian spoken by the Tajiks

Examples of Tajik in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With the formation of the first Islamic Emirate under the Taliban, Mr. Nasrullah’s family decamped to its native Panjshir, a stronghold of the Tajik ethnic group. —Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023

Much of the Afghan-Tajik border is now controlled by the Taliban, which has been collecting revenue from cross-border commerce at their own mobile customs checkpoints on major highways, according to local Afghan security sources. —Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 7 July 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1815, in the meaning defined at sense 1