تازیک

• تازک‎ (tâzek)

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒːˈziːkʲ]

From Middle Persian tʾcyk' (Tāčīk, Tāzīg, “Arab”), from Arabic طَيِّء‎ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). Compare Classical Syriac ܛܝܝܐ‎ (Ṭayyāyāʾ, “Arab”).

تازیک • (tâzik) (plural تازیکان‎ (tâzikân))

1. (obsolete) Arab; Arabic

• تازی‎ (tâzi)
• تاژیک‎ (tâžik), تاژک‎ (tâžek)

Possibly re-borrowed from Old Turkic [script needed] (Täzik, “non-Turk/Iranian of Central Asia”) (Orkhon inscription), from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (Tāčīk, Tāzīg, “Arab”).

تازیک • (tâzik) (plural تازیکان‎ (tâzikân))

1. (archaic) Persian (as opposed to Turk)
   • Abolfazl Beyhaqi, Târix-e Beyhaqi, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyâz, page 47:

     ‏و حاجب بزرگ علی بازگشت و همه بزرگان سپاه را از تازیک و ترک با خویشتن برد ...‎‎

     va hâjeb bozorg ali bâzgašt o hame-ye bozorgân-e sepâh râ az tâzik o tork bâ xištan bord ...

     and Hâjeb Bozorg Ali returned and brought all commanders of the army—both Persian and Turk—with himself ...

• تاژیک‎ (tâžik), تاژک‎ (tâžek)
• تاجیک‎ (tâjik)
• تات‎ (tât)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “تازیک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• B.G. Franger (2000), “Tādjīk”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 10, Leiden: Brill, pages 62–64
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “²Tāzīg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press