تاجیک

Persian

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
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /tɔd͡ʒik/

Noun
Dari تاجک‎
Iranian Persian تاجیک
Tajik тоҷик (tojik)

تاجیک • (tâjik) (plural تاجیک‌ها‎ (tâjik-hâ) or تاجیکان‎ (tâjikân))

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

Inflection
    Basic forms of تاجیک (Tâjik)
singular plural
bare تاجیک
(Tâjik)		 تاجیک‌ها
(Tâjik-hấ)
تاجیکا △
(Tâjikấ)
definitive direct object تاجیک را
(Tâjik râ)
تاجیک رو △
(Tâjiko)		 تاجیک‌ها را
(Tâjik-hấ râ)
تاجیکا رو △
(Tâjikấ ro)
ezâfe تاجیک
(Tâjik-e)		 تاجیک‌های
(Tâjik-hấ-ye)
تاجیکای △
(Tâjikấ-ye)
marked indefinite
or relative definite		 تاجیکی
(Tâjik-i)		 تاجیک‌هایی
(Tâjikấn-i, Tâjik-hấ-i)
تاجیکایی △
(Tâjikấi)
△ Colloquial.
    Predicative forms of تاجیک (tâjik)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)		 تاجیکم‎
(tâjikam)		 تاجیکیم‎
(tâjikim)
2nd person
(“you are”)		 تاجیکی‎
(tâjiki)		 تاجیکید‎
(tâjikid)
تاجیکین‎ △
(tâjikin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)		 تاجیک است‎
(tâjik ast)
تاجیکه‎ △
(tâjike)		 تاجیکند‎
(tâjikand)
تاجیکن‎ △
(tâjikan)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms
  • تازیک‎ (tâzik), تازک‎ (tâzek)
  • تاژیک‎ (tâžik), تاژک‎ (tâžek)
  • تات‎ (tât)

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