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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Uzbekistan or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Uzbekistan.
  • noun A member of a Turkic people inhabiting Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
  • noun The Turkic language of the Uzbeks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person from Uzbekistan or of Uzbek descent.
  • proper noun The language of Uzbekistan.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Uzbekistan, the Uzbek people or the Uzbek language.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek
  • noun a member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas
  • noun a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Russian, from Uzbek ŭzbek.]

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