Definitions
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- noun a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the 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
- noun a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
- noun the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak
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Examples
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Once or twice we saw horsemen in the distance, on the low rocky barchans, and I heard for the first time names like "Kazak" and "Turka", but they kept a safe distance.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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He produced a photocopied page from a czarist-era encyclopedia showing Cossacks listed as second (after Russians) among the Slavic peoples of Russia, and another showing that Cossacks wrote "Kazak" ( "Cossack" in Russian, a word possibly of Turkic origin) under the heading natsional'nost '( "ethnic group") on government forms in the first years after the 1917 revolution.
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He produced a photocopied page from a czarist-era encyclopedia showing Cossacks listed as second (after Russians) among the Slavic peoples of Russia, and another showing that Cossacks wrote "Kazak" ( "Cossack" in Russian, a word possibly of Turkic origin) under the heading natsional'nost '( "ethnic group") on government forms in the first years after the 1917 revolution.
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He produced a photocopied page from a czarist-era encyclopedia showing Cossacks listed as second (after Russians) among the Slavic peoples of Russia, and another showing that Cossacks wrote "Kazak" ( "Cossack" in Russian, a word possibly of Turkic origin) under the heading natsional'nost '( "ethnic group") on government forms in the first years after the 1917 revolution.
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This summer, for example, a man was reprimanded on an English beach for wearing a thong-like suit with a halter strap similar to the one made famous by Borat, the fictional Kazak journalist.
Grab Your 'Murse,' Pack a 'Mankini' And Don't Forget the 'Mewelry' Christina Passariello 2011
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The Fellow will be mentored on research directly by Dr. Anne Kazak and will have the opportunity to collaborate with other investigators in our laboratory - Drs. Melissa Alderfer, Lamia Barakat, Lisa Schwartz, and Branlyn Werba - as well with our many multidisciplinary collaborators in the CCCR.
Postdoctoral Program 2010
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Mr. McFaul cautioned that "there was no equivalence meant whatsoever" between the states of U.S. and Kazak democracies.
Obama Presses Nuclear Issue Jonathan Weisman 2010
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Mr. McFaul cautioned that "there was no equivalence meant whatsoever" between the states of U.S. and Kazak democracies.
Obama Presses Nuclear Issue Jonathan Weisman 2010
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After independence in the early 1990s, there was a greater premium placed on being Kazak in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan and so on in the other 'stans.
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Mr. McFaul cautioned that "there was no equivalence meant whatsoever" between the states of U.S. and Kazak democracies.
Obama Presses Nuclear Issue Jonathan Weisman 2010
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