Definitions
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- noun historical A
leader inCentral Asia (especially in the Middle Ages, and especially in the Mongol Empire and its successor states).
Etymologies
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Uncertain; perhaps Iranian, Turkic or Mongolic.
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Examples
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My Central Asia-specialist friend Bruce Wannell put his own spin on it: "You want tarkhan, the mix of dried mulberries and walnuts used by Afghan fighters – it's the snack food that defeated the Russians."
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I ate flapjacks, oranges, apples, cake and the last of my tarkhan.
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I'd already been munching my tarkhan and it was working fine.
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The tradesmen like lohar, tarkhan (carpenter), nai (barber) and darzi (tailor) traditionally working in the villages since centuries - mostly paid in the form of grain at the end of each rabi and kharif seasons - are no more pursuing their vocations.
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