Hazara

See also: hazara

English

Alternative forms

• Huzara

Etymology

From Classical Persian هَزَارَه (hazāra).

Noun

Hazara (plural Hazaras or Hazara)

1. (Pakistan) A region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.
2. A member of an ethnic group from central Afghanistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 169:

     The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.

Adjective

Hazara (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Hazaras, an ethnic group from central Afghanistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150:

     Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.

Related terms

• Hazarajat
• Hazara Pakistan
• Hazara, Pakistan
• Hazaras
• Hazaristan

 

Translations

person

• Finnish: hazara
• Kazakh: хазар (xazar)
• Polish: Hazar (pl) m, Hazarka (pl) f
• Russian: хазаре́ец (ru) m (xazaréjec), хазаре́йка f (xazaréjka)