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Uzbek

Uzbek comes from Russian узбе́к ‘Uzbek (male person)’, and goes back to Chagatai اوزبک.

  1. Chagataimodernاوزبکözbäk
  2. Uzbekmodernoʻzbek
  3. Russianmodernузбе́кuzbék‘Uzbek (male person)’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1994Uzbek

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Chagataimodernاوزبکözbäk
  2. Uzbekmodernoʻzbek
  3. Russianmodernузбе́кuzbék‘Uzbek (male person)’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1994Uzbek

Earliest quotation: 1994, World Link: “Outside government, Uzbek and Islamic social mores – by…”

first attested First attested in 1616 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in 1616. Further etymology is uncertain; possibly from Turkic öz (‘genuine’) + Eastern Iranian Sogdian [script needed] (βγ /⁠beġ⁠/, “master”); the latter from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰagás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás.uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain. The first element is often thought to be equivalent to English Oghuz.

Every English word from Chagatai اوزبک

Today it means

noun A member of a Central Asian Turkic ethnic group native to Uzbekistan and neighboring countries, with significant, centuries-old indigenous populations across northern Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Chagatai اوزبک / Uzbek

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