Azerbaijanize
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Etymology edit
Azerbaijani + -ize
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Azerbaijanize (third-person singular simple present Azerbaijanizes, present participle Azerbaijanizing, simple past and past participle Azerbaijanized)
- to make Azerbaijani.
- 1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia:
- But this sleep keeps being disturbed: the Georgification of Abkhazians; the long-time desire to Azerbaijanize the Armenians in Nagornyy Karabakh; the Russification of the Arabic alphabet in the languages of the peoples of Central Asia,
- 1996, Ronald Grigor Suny, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Transcaucasia, nationalism and social change: essays in the history of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, Univ of Michigan Pr, page 439
- During the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan legislatively Azerbaijanized its minorities, and Kurds, Lezgins, Talyshes, Avars, Meshkhetian Turks, and other small ethnic communities were labeled Azerbaijanis on their personal documents,
- 2012, Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
- Pseudo-democracy was sometimes seen in ethnically adapted images of Stalin, as in a huge portrait of an Azerbaijanized Stalin hanging on the wall behind a Baku husband and wife putting their ballots in the box.
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