تاجیک

Persian

Alternative forms
  • تاجک‎ (tâjek)

Etymology

Possibly related to تازیک‎ (tâzik), a re-borrowing from Old Turkic.

According to W. Henning, from *Tāt-čīk, originally *Tād-čīk.

Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج‎ (tāj), from Persian تاج‎ (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.

See Fragner for more discussion.

Pronunciation

Noun
Dari Persian تاجیک‎
Iranian Persian تاجیک‎
Tajiki Persian тоҷик (tojik)

تاجیک • (Tâjik) (plural تاجیک‌ها‎ (Tâjik-hâ) or تاجیکان‎ (Tâjikân))

  1. non-Turk
  2. Tajik
    تاجیک‌ها قومی آریایی هستند.‎
    Tâjik-hâ qowmi âryâyi hastand.
    The Tajiks are an Aryan people.

Inflection
basic forms of تاجیک
singular plural
bare تاجیک (Tâjik) تاجیک‌ها (Tâjik-hấ)
تاجیکا (Tâjikấ) (colloquial)
definitive direct object تاجیک را (Tâjik râ)
تاجیک رو (Tâjiko) (colloquial)		 تاجیک‌ها را (Tâjik-hấ râ)
تاجیکا رو (Tâjikấ ro) (colloquial)
ezâfé تاجیک (Tâjik-e) تاجیک‌های (Tâjik-hấ-ye)
تاجیکای (Tâjikấ-ye) (colloquial)
marked indefinite,
relative definite		 تاجیکی (Tâjik-i) تاجیک‌هایی (Tâjikấn-i, Tâjik-hấ-i)
تاجیکایی (Tâjikấi) (colloquial)
predicative forms of تاجیک
singular plural
1st person (I am/we are) تاجیکم (Tâjíkam) تاجیکیم (Tâjíkim)
2nd person (you are) تاجیکی (Tâjíki) تاجیکید (Tâjíkid)
تاجیکین (Tâjíkin) (colloquial)
3rd person (he, she, it is/they are) تاجیک است (Tâjík ast)
تاجیکه (Tâjíke) (colloquial)		 تاجیکند (Tâjíkand)
تاجیکن (Tâjíkan) (colloquial)
  • تازیک‎ (tâzik), تازک‎ (tâzek)
  • تاژیک‎ (tâžik), تاژک‎ (tâžek)
  • تات‎ (tât)

Derived terms

References
  • B.G. Franger (2000), "Tādjīk", Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. X, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 62–64
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