Kazakh

1. A member of a pastoral Muslim people inhabiting Kazakhstan and parts of Xinjiang Uygur in China.
2. The Turkic language of this people.

[Russian kazakh, from Kazakh qazaq, from Old Turkic *qazghaq, a profiteer, from qazqhanmaq, to acquire, from qazmaq, to dig out.]

The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
  Synonym: Kazak

Meaning #2: a landlocked republic south of Russia and northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian Soviet from 1936 to 1991
  Synonyms: Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazak

Meaning #3: the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak people
  Synonym: Kazak

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Kazakh may refer to:

• Kazakhs, an ethnic group
• Kazakh language
• Kazakh cuisine
• Kazakhstan
• Culture of Kazakhstan
• Qazakh Rayon, Azerbaijan
• Qazax, Azerbaijan

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