dzhigit
Definitions
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- noun a skilled horseman in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
- noun a brave male person in general.
Examples
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A Cossack is inclined to hate less the dzhigit hillsman who maybe has killed his brother, than the soldier quartered on him to defend his village, but who has defiled his hut with tobacco-smoke.
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He says Shamil is a great man, learned, holy, and a dzhigit.
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The song told of how a dzhigit, Hamzád, with his brave followers captured a herd of white horses from the Russians, and how a Russian Prince followed him beyond the Térek and surrounded him with an army as large as a forest; and then the song went on to tell how Hamzád killed the horses, and, with his men entrenched behind this gory bulwark, fought the Russians as long as they had bullets in their rifles, daggers in their belts, and blood in their veins.
Note
The word 'dzhigit' comes from Turkic.
