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uzbekistan

UK/ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑːn/US/ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑn/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Uzbekistan is the Central Asian country of Samarkand on the old Silk Road. Visit Uzbekistan.

Samarkand and Bukhara were among the great cities of the world for centuries. Uzbekistan is one of only two countries you must cross two borders to leave the land from.

Ashmad Levish · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of uzbekistan

  1. 1nounuzbekistanThe Central Asian country of Samarkand on the old Silk Road.B2

    “Uzbekistan grows cotton where a sea used to be.”

uzbekistan is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. fa-cls

    اُزْبَکِسْتَان

  2. Russian

    Узбекистан

  3. English

    Uzbekistan

  4. English, today

    uzbekistan

Built from

  • uz · Turkish — genuine

Uzbekistan comes from Russian Узбекистан, itself from fa-cls اُزْبَکِسْتَان. Ultimately unknown; possibly from trk - uz (“genuine”) + sog (“master”) (for the second element, see Turkish bey). The suffix is from fa-cls ـِستان (“place of”). by surface analysis, Uzbek + -i- + -stan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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