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tajikistan

UK/təˈdʒiːkɪˌstɑːn/US/təˈdʒiːkɪˌstɑːn/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Tajikistan is a Central Asian country that is almost entirely mountains, capital Dushanbe. The passes of Tajikistan.

About ninety-three per cent of it is mountain, and half lies above three thousand metres. Tajikistan has the tallest dam in the world and speaks a form of Persian.

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Definitions of tajikistan

  1. 1nountajikistanCentral Asian country that is almost entirely mountains, capital Dushanbe.C1

    “Tajikistan borders Afghanistan along a river.”

tajikistan is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. fa-cls

    تَاجِیکِسْتَان

  2. English

    Tajikistan

  3. English, today

    tajikistan

Tajikistan comes from fa-cls تَاجِیکِسْتَان (from which tg Тоҷикистон). by surface analysis, Tajik + -istan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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