Etymology 1
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Wiktionary
From Russian каза́х ( kazáx ) . Cognate with Cossack , ultimately from Turkic languages.
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Pronunciation
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Kazakh (countable and uncountable , plural Kazakhs )
( countable ) A person from Kazakhstan or of that descent.
( uncountable ) The national language of Kazakhstan .
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a person from Kazakhstan or of that descent
Afrikaans: Kazak , Kazach
Albanian: kazah m , kazak m
Arabic: كَازَاخِيّ m ( kāzāḵiyy ) , كَازَاخِيَّة f ( kāzāḵiyya )
Armenian: ղազախ ( ġazax )
Azerbaijani: qazax
Bashkir: ҡаҙаҡ ( qaźaq )
Belarusian: каза́х m ( kazáx ) , каза́шка f ( kazáška )
Bulgarian: каза́х (bg) m ( kazáh )
Catalan: kazakh (ca) m or f
Chagatai: قزاق ( qazāq /qazaq/ )
Chinese:
Dungan: хазах ( hazah )
Mandarin: 哈薩克人 / 哈萨克人 (zh) ( Hɑ̄sɑ̀kèrén )
Czech: Kazach (cs) m , Kazaška (cs) f
Danish: kasakher c
Dutch: Kazak (nl) m
Esperanto: kazaĥo
Finnish: kazakki (fi)
French: Kazakh (fr) m , Kazakhe (fr) f
Georgian: ყაზახი ( q̇azaxi )
German: Kasache (de) m , Kasachin (de) f
Greek: Καζάκος (el) m ( Kazákos ) , Καζάκα (el) f ( Kazáka )
Hindi: कजाक (hi) m ( kajāk ) , कज़ाक ( kazāk )
Hungarian: kazak (hu) , kazah (hu)
Irish: Casacach m
Japanese: カザフ人 ( kazafujin )
Kabardian: казах (kbd) ( kazax )
Kalmyk: хасг ( xasg )
Kazakh:
Cyrillic (since 1940): қазақ ( qazaq )
Eskı emle (before 1924): قزاق ( qazāq /qazaq/ )
Jaña emle (since 1924): قازاق
Latin (2021 and earlier proposals): qazaq
Khakas: хазах ( xazax )
Kyrgyz: казак (ky) ( kazak )
Latvian: kazahs m , kazahiete f
Lithuanian: kazachas (lt) m
Manchu: ᡥᠠᠰᠠᡴ ( hasak )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: казах (mn) ( kazax ) , хасаг (mn) ( xasag ) ( traditionally, also used to refer to a Cossack )
Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠰᠠᠭ ( qasag ) , ᠺᠠᠽᠠᠭ ( kazag )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kasakhstaner (no) m
Nynorsk: kasakhstanar (nn) m
Persian: قزاق (fa) ( qazzâq ) , کزاخ ( kazâx )
Polish: Kazach (pl) m , Kazaszka (pl) f
Portuguese: cazaque (pt)
Romanian: kazah (ro) m , kazahă (ro) f
Russian: каза́х (ru) m ( kazáx ) , каза́шка (ru) f ( kazáška ) ( since 1936 ) ; каза́к (ru) m ( kazák ) , каза́чка (ru) f ( kazáčka ) ( 1925–1936 ) ; кирги́з (ru) m ( kirgíz ) , кирги́зка (ru) f ( kirgízka ) , киргѝз-кайса́к m ( kirgìz-kajsák ) , киргѝз-кайса́чка f ( kirgìz-kajsáčka ) ( 1734– 1925 )
Spanish: kazajo (es) m
Swahili: Mkazaki (sw)
Swedish: kazak (sv) c ( ethnicity )
Tajik: қазоқ (tg) ( qazoq )
Tatar: казакъ (tt) ( qazaq )
Turkish: Kazak (tr)
Turkmen: gazak
Ukrainian: каза́х (uk) m ( kazáx ) , каза́шка f ( kazáška )
Uyghur: قازاق ( qazaq )
Uzbek: qozoq (uz)
Cyrillic: қозоқ ( qozoq )
Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠰᠠᡎ ( xasag )
Yakut: казах ( kazaq )
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Adjective
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Kazakh (not comparable )
Of, from, or pertaining to Kazakhstan , the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language.
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pertaining to the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language
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Etymology 2
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From Russian Каза́х ( Kazáx ) .
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Kazakh
Alternative form of Gazakh
References
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Vasmer, Max (1964–1973 ) “казак ”, in Oleg Trubachyov , transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language ] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress