Hazara
See also: hazara
English
Noun
Hazara (plural Hazaras or Hazara)
- (Pakistan) A region in cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.
- A member of an ethnic group from central Afghanistan.
- 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 169:
- The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.
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Adjective
Hazara (comparative more Hazara, superlative most Hazara)
- Of or relating to the Hazaras, an ethnic group from central Afghanistan.
- 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150:
- Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.
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