Kazakh

plural Kazakhs · alternative Kazak · alternative Qazaq · alternative Kaisak

1. countableA person from Kazakhstan or of that descent.

   Synonyms: Kazakhstani

2. uncountableThe national language of Kazakhstan.

comparative more Kazakh · superlative most Kazakh · alternative Kazak · alternative Qazaq · alternative Kaisak

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Kazakhstan, the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language.

   Over 70% of the city population is reckoned to be Kazakh or Uzbek and only 15% Russian. Being much more Kazakh than Russian certainly gives Shymkent a less disciplined feel about it, and this has its good sides to it and its bad sides.

   2010, Michael Fergus, Vitaliy Krotov, “Other cities”, in Kazakhstan: The Business Traveller’s Handbook (Gorilla Guides: Travel Handbooks for the Business Jungle), Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Travel, →ISBN, chapter 9 (Other Major Cities), page 159

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   At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU.

   2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023

   Synonyms: Kazakhstani

1. alternativeAlternative form of Gazakh.