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Kazakh

Definitions: Kazakh

Kazakh

Noun

1. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).

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.

3. The Turkic language spoken by the Kazak people.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Kazakh

Synonyms: Kazak (n), Kazakhstan (n), Kazakstan (n), Republic of Kazakhstan (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Kazakh language

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Kazakh, also Qazaq (Қазақ тілі, Qazaq tili) is a Turkic language with ISO 639 codes of kaz and kk.

It is one of the official languages of Kazakhstan, and is also spoken traditionally in Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Germany has some Kazakh speakers in the second half of the 20th century and onward.

There are approximately 6.5 million native speakers around the world. It is written using the Cyrillic, the Latin (Turkey), and modified Arabic (China, Iran, Afghanistan) scripts.

See also: Kazakh, Languages of China

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kazakh language."

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Crosswords: Kazakh

English words defined with "Kazakh": kok-saghyz, kok-sagyzRussian dandelionTaraxacum kok-saghyz. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Kazakh

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kazakh Grammar With Affix List (reference)

  • Dictionary of the Turkic Languages: English Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Uzbek (reference)

  • Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Islamic History and (reference)

  • Soviet Dungan kolkhozes in the Kirghiz SSR and the Kazakh SSR (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Kazakh

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Workers of a youth brigade from mine of the "Leninugol" Trust, Karaganda coalfield, Kazakh S.S.R. ; left to right: K. Kuramyshev, T. Kuznetsova, K. Bukharbayev, and Sagidoldinov. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Kazakh

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Foreign companies, interested in the procurement of their oil and gas field equipment to Kazakhstan, should try as much as possible to meet Kazakh content requirement. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

Ethnic Kazakh migrants are automatically eligible for citizenship. (references)

Kazakhstan

During the year, the Government introduced a system of quotas for returning Kazakh migrants--a total of 600 families was set for the year. (references)

Kazakhstan

The Government also has refused to register ethnically based political parties on the grounds that their activities could spark ethnic violence; however, the small Kazakh ethnic nationalist "Alash" Party was registered for the 1999 parliamentary elections. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

Language: Approximately 40% Kazakh and 60% Russian. (references)

Kazakhstan

Both Kazakh and Russian languages have official status. (references)

Mongolia

Languages: Khalkha Mongol, more than 90%; minor languages include Kazakh, Chinese, and Russian. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

Legal proceedings are conducted in the state language, Kazakh, although Russian also may be used officially in the courts. (references)

Minorities

Kazakhstan

According to the Constitution, the Kazakh language is the official state language. (references)

Kazakhstan

The Constitution states that the Russian language may be used officially on a basis equal with that of the Kazakh language in organizations and bodies of local self-administration. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

Starting in 2000 Kazakhstan banned the sale of certain products not labeled in both the Kazakh and Russian languages. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Kazakh

"Kazakh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Kazakh" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.91%3063,341
Noun (proper)9.09%3202,518
                    Total100.00%33N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Kazakh

Expression using "Kazakh": kazakh soviet socialist republic. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Kazakh": kazakh-brokered, kazakh-german, Kazakh-kirghiz.

Ending with "Kazakh": Kirghiz-kazakh.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kazakh

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kazakh

17

kazakh language

5

kazakh music

2

border kazakh uzbek

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Kazakh

Language Translations for "Kazakh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kazah. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"薩克人 (Kazakh people, Kazakh person). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Kazachstaans (Kazak). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kazaĥa (Kazak). (various references)

   

German

  

kasachisch (Kazak). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kazah (kazak). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azakhkay

   

Russian 

  

казахский, казах. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kazak. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kazachiska språket, kazachiska, kazachisk, kazach. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kazak dili, kazak (cossack, Jersey, jumper, pullover, sweater). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Kazakh

Misspellings

"Kazakh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kataky, Kazek, kazkh, Kozik, Kozjak, Kunakh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Kazakh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-k-k-z"

-2 letters: kaka.

-3 letters: aah, aha.

-4 letters: aa, ah, ha, ka.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-k-k-z"
 

+2 letters: kazachki, kazachok.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Kazakh


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 61 7A 61 6B 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    .-    --..    .-    -.-    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01100001 01111010 01100001 01101011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#97 &#122 &#97 &#107 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0061 007A 0061 006B 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

456792677774

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian;
Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
‏الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, Esperantu, есперанто, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, Eseperano, esperanto, Kiesperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili, tiếng etperantô, for esperanto;
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Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
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Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;