Azerbaijanize

present singular third person Azerbaijanizes · participle present Azerbaijanizing · participle past Azerbaijanized · past Azerbaijanized

1. to make Azerbaijani.

   Pseudo-democracy was sometimes seen in ethnically adapted images of Stalin, as in a huge portrait of an Azerbaijanized Stalin hanging on the wall behind a Baku husband and wife putting their ballots in the box.

   2012, Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 79

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   But this sleep keeps being disturbed: the Georgification of Abkhazians; the long-time desire to Azerbaijanize the Armenians in Nagornyy Karabakh; the Russification of the Arabic alphabet in the languages of the peoples of Central Asia,

   1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia

   During the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan legislatively Azerbaijanized its minorities, and Kurds, Lezgins, Talyshes, Avars, Meshkhetian Turks, and other small ethnic communities were labeled Azerbaijanis on their personal documents,

   1996, Ronald Grigor Suny, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Transcaucasia, nationalism and social change: essays in the history of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, Univ of Michigan Pr, page 439