English words from Kazakh
- oralRelating to the mouth.
- sumA quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- SHUA god personifying the air and atmosphere.
- aynSynonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
- tengeThe basic monetary unit of Kazakhstan; subdivided into tiyin.
- AlmatyThe largest city in and former (until 1998) capital of Kazakhstan, formerly known as Alma-Ata.
- AstanaThe capital city of Kazakhstan.
- BaikonurA city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.
- KazakOfficial term for the local Kazakh nationality in the People’s Republic of China.
- TurkistanA region of Kazakhstan.
- AtyrauA city at the mouth of the Ural River at the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.
- AktauA city (population 160,000), Kazakhstan's main seaport on the Caspian Sea. Official city name 1963-64 and since 1991.
- aksaiteA mineral containing magnesium, boron, oxygen, and hydrogen.
- AksayA Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
- AktobeA city in Northwest Kazakhstan with 375,000 inhabitants.
- Aral SeaA saline lake, straddling the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, that was once large, but shrank to a quarter of its original size after the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which previously flowed into it, were diverted for irrigation purposes during the Soviet era.
- AsharshylykA widespread famine that afflicted Kazakhstan from 1930-1933.
- AuelkhanA surname from Kazakh.
- dombraA long-necked lute found in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.
- GulziraA female given name from Kazakh.
- JezkazganA city in Kazakhstan.
- kobyzA stringed instrument traditionally made of a single piece of wood, with either two or four strings and played with a bow, of traditional Kazakh origin.
- KokshetauA city, the regional capital of the Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.
- KostanayA city on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan, with a population of 220,000.
- KurykA port town on the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.
- North KazakhstanThe northernmost region of Kazakhstan. Capital: Petropavl.
- Nur-SultanFormer name of Astana: the capital city of Kazakhstan, used from 2019 to 2022.
- OskemenA city (population 300,000) on the Irtysh in east Kazakhstan.
- Republic of KazakhstanOfficial name of Kazakhstan: a country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
- SemeyA city on the Irtysh in east Kazakhstan.
- shelpekA traditional Central Asian flatbread.
- shubatKazakh drink
- ShymkentA city in Kazakhstan.
- sumesutKazakh milk dish
- YkybayevA surname from Kazakh used in Kazakhstan.
- ZhanaozenA city in Kazakhstan.
- zhuzAny of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kipchak Plain area that cover much of the contemporary Kazakhstan, and represent the main tribal division within the ethnic group of the Kazakhs.