Uzbekize

present singular third person Uzbekizes · participle present Uzbekizing · participle past Uzbekized · past Uzbekized

1. to make Uzbek.

   The demand was based on the argument that Uzbek authorities were forcibly Uzbekizing the Tajik population of Uzbekistan.

   2015, Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 367

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   The Central Asian Bureau of the Central Corzo, whee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Central Colomittee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, and the Centrol Executive Committee of Uzbekistan decided to Uzbekize the apparatus of these organizations 100 per cent by September 1, 1930.

   1952, John Stephen Reshetar, Michael M. Luther, Aspects of the Nationality Problem in USSR

   2007, Solomon I. Baevskii, Early Persian Lexicography: Farhangs of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries, Global Oriental (→ISBN), pgae xi The names of authors of works in Russian and Tajik as cited in the bibliographies show some spelling inconsistencies. This is because, during the Soviet period, Tajik names were usually Russianized (in some cases, additionally Uzbekized, mostly by the change of f to p);