Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991
- n. a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
- n. the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak
Examples
“Once or twice we saw horsemen in the distance, on the low rocky barchans, and I heard for the first time names like "Kazak" and "Turka", but they kept a safe distance.”
“He produced a photocopied page from a czarist-era encyclopedia showing Cossacks listed as second (after Russians) among the Slavic peoples of Russia, and another showing that Cossacks wrote "Kazak" ( "Cossack" in Russian, a word possibly of Turkic origin) under the heading natsional'nost '( "ethnic group") on government forms in the first years after the 1917 revolution.”
“This summer, for example, a man was reprimanded on an English beach for wearing a thong-like suit with a halter strap similar to the one made famous by Borat, the fictional Kazak journalist.”
The Wall Street Journal: Grab Your 'Murse,' Pack a 'Mankini' And Don't Forget the 'Mewelry'
“The Fellow will be mentored on research directly by Dr. Anne Kazak and will have the opportunity to collaborate with other investigators in our laboratory - Drs. Melissa Alderfer, Lamia Barakat, Lisa Schwartz, and Branlyn Werba - as well with our many multidisciplinary collaborators in the CCCR.”
“Mr. McFaul cautioned that "there was no equivalence meant whatsoever" between the states of U.S. and Kazak democracies.”
“After independence in the early 1990s, there was a greater premium placed on being Kazak in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan and so on in the other 'stans.”
The Huffington Post: Nicholas van Praag: Glimmer of hope in Central Asia
“The fan-tailed peacock pictured below was the signature design of the Akstafa, a single group of Kazak weavers living southwest of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.”
“How ashamed one becomes, alone in a train station lobby with censorednewspapers and Kazak cigarettes, counting boys as if they were a marshal's medals, waiting for sealed trains to make me older and better versed.”
“There has even been talk of joint military exercises with the Kazak military.”
“Oh, and Kazak … no, wait ... somewhere Borat is jumping up and down in his Speedo; looks like the Kazakhs have eclipsed us too.”
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