Tajikistan

English

Alternative forms

• Tadjikistan, Tadzhikistan

Etymology

Borrowed from Tajik Тоҷикистон (Tojikiston), from Classical Persian تاجیکستان (tājīkistān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈdʒiːkɪˌstɑːn/, /təˈdʒɪkɪˌstɑːn/, /-stæn/

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Proper noun

Tajikistan

2. A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Tajikistan. Capital: Dushanbe.
   • 2022 October 15, “Tajik President's Demand For 'Respect' From Putin Viewed Millions Of Times On YouTube”, in Radio Free Europe‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2022‎^[2]:

     Rahmon, addressing Putin directly, said that Tajikistan and other countries in the vast region have been treated like outsiders and indicates that the region deserves more investment from Moscow. […]
     Rahmon said the neglect of Tajikistan and the other countries of Central Asia, which he said were only used for their raw materials during the Soviet era, was one of the reasons for the collapse.

Related terms

• Tajik
• Tajiki
• Tajik SSR

Translations

Republic of Tajikistan

• Abkhaz: Таджикистан (Tʼadẑikʼistʼan)
• Acehnese: Tajikistan
• Afrikaans: Tadjikistan (af)
• Albanian: Taxhikistan m, Taxhikistani m (definite)
• Alemannic German: Tadschikistan
• Amharic: ታጂኪስታን (taǧikistan)
• Arabic: طَاجِيكِسْتَان f (ṭājīkistān), تَاجِيكِسْتَان f (tājīkistān), طَجِيكِسْتَان f (ṭajīkistān), تَجِيكِسْتَان f (tajīkistān)
• Aragonese: Tachiquistán
• Aramaic: ܛܐܓܝܩܣܛܐܢ
• Armenian: Տաջիկստան (Taǰikstan)
• Assamese: তাজিকিস্তান (tazikistan)
• Asturian: Tayiquistán m
• Aymara: Tayiksuyu
• Azerbaijani: Tacikistan (az)

  Cyrillic: Таҹикистан, Тажик (Tažik), Тажик (Tažik)

• Bashkir: Тажикстан (Tajikstan)
• Basque: Tajikistan (eu)
• Belarusian: Таджыкіста́н m (Tadžykistán)
• Bengali: তাজিকিস্তান (bn) (tajikistan)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: তাজিকিস্তান (tājikistān)
• Breton: Tadjikistan
• Bulgarian: Таджикиста́н (bg) m (Tadžikistán)
• Burmese: တာဂျစ်ကစ္စတန် (tagyackacca.tan)
• Catalan: Tadjikistan (ca) m
• Chechen: Таджикистан (Tadžikistan)
• Cherokee: ᏔᏥᎩᏍᏔᏂ (tatsigistani)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 塔吉克斯坦 (taap³ gat¹ hak¹ si¹ taan²)

  Mandarin: 塔吉克斯坦 (zh) (Tǎjíkèsītǎn)

• Chuvash: Таджикистан (Tadžik̬istan)
• Crimean Tatar: Tacikistan
• Czech: Tádžikistán (cs) m
• Danish: Tadsjikistan n
• Dhivehi: ތަޖިކިސްތާން (tajikistān̊)
• Dutch: Tadzjikistan (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཏ་ཇག་ཀིསི་ཏཱན་ (ta jag kisi tān)
• Esperanto: Taĝikio, Taĝikistano
• Estonian: Tadžikistan (et)
• Farefare: Tazikistan
• Faroese: Tadsjikistan n
• Finnish: Tadžikistan (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Tadj·iquistan
• French: Tadjikistan (fr) m
• Galician: Taxiquistán (gl) m
• Georgian: ტაჯიკეთი (ka) (ṭaǯiḳeti)
• German: Tadschikistan (de) n
• Greek: Τατζικιστάν (el) n (Tatzikistán)
• Gujarati: તાજ઼િકિસ્તાન (tāzikistān)
• Hausa: Tajikistan
• Hebrew: טָגִ׳יקִיסְטָן m (tajikistan)
• Hindi: ताजिकिस्तान (hi) m (tājikistān)
• Hungarian: Tádzsikisztán (hu)
• Icelandic: Tadsjikistan (is) n
• Indonesian: Tajikistan (id)
• Interlingua: Tadzhikistan
• Irish: an Táidsíceastáin f
• Italian: Tagikistan (it) m
• Japanese: タジキスタン (ja) (Tajikisutan)
• Kabardian: Таджыкыстэн (Tadžəkəstɛn)
• Kannada: ತಜಿಕಿಸ್ತಾನ್ (tajikistān)
• Kashmiri: ताजिकिस्थान (tājikisthān)
• Kazakh: Тәжікстан (kk) (Täjıkstan)
• Khmer: តាជីគីស្ថាន (taaciikiisthaan)
• Korean: 타지키스탄 (ko) (Tajikiseutan), 따쥐끼스딴 (ko) (Ttajwikkiseuttan) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tacîkistan (ku)

• Kven: Tadžikistan
• Kyrgyz: Тажикстан (ky) (Tajikstan)
• Lao: ຕັກຊີກິສະຖານ (tak sī ki sa thān), ຕັດຈິກິດສະຖານ (tat chi kit sa thān)
• Latin: Tadzikistania f
• Latvian: Tadžikistāna (lv) f
• Limburgish: Tadzjikistan (li)
• Lithuanian: Tadžikija (lt) f, Tadžikistanas (lt) m
• Low German: Tadschikistan
• Luxembourgish: Tadschikistan
• Macedonian: Таџикиста́н m (Tadžikistán)
• Malay: Tajikistan (ms)
• Malayalam: താജിക്കിസ്ഥാന് (tājikkisthāṉ)
• Maltese: Taġikistan
• Maori: Tahikitāna
• Marathi: ताजिकिस्तान (tājikistān)
• Mazanderani: تاجیکستون
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тажикистан (mn) (Tažikistan)

• Nahuatl: Tayictlālpan
• Navajo: Tʼajiʼ bikéyah
• Norman: Tajikistan m
• Northern Sami: Tažikistan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tadsjikistan (no) n

• Occitan: Tatgiquistan
• Odia: ତାଜିକିସ୍ତାନ (tājikistāna)
• Ossetian: Таджикистан (Taǵikistan)
• Pashto: تاجکستان (ps) m (tājikestān)
• Pennsylvania German: Datschikischtaan
• Persian:

  Dari: تَاجِکِسْتَان (tājikistān)

  Iranian Persian: تاجیکِسْتان (fa) (tâjikestân)

• Piedmontese: Tagikistan m
• Polish: Tadżykistan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Tajiquistão (pt) m, Tadjiquistão (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਤਾਜਿਕਸਤਾਨ (tājiksatān)
• Quechua: Tayiksuyu
• Romanian: Tadjikistan (ro) n
• Russian: Таджикиста́н (ru) m (Tadžikistán)
• Samogitian: Tadžikistans
• Sanskrit: ताजिकिस्थान (tājikisthāna)
• Scottish Gaelic: Taidigeastàn
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Таџикѝста̄н m

  Roman: Tadžikìstān (sh) m

• Shughni: Тоҷикисту̊н m (Tōǰikistū̊n)
• Silesian: Tadžykistan m
• Sinhalese: ටජිකිස්ථාන් (ṭajikisthān)
• Slovak: Tadžikistan m
• Slovene: Tadžíkistan (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Tadžikistan m

  Upper Sorbian: Tadźikistan m

• Spanish: Tayikistán (es) m
• Swahili: Tajikistan
• Swedish: Tadzjikistan (sv) n
• Tajik: Тоҷикистон (tg) (Tojikiston)
• Talysh: Tacikiston
• Tamil: தஜிகிஸ்தான் (tajikistāṉ)
• Tat: Tacikestan
• Tatar: Таҗикстан (Tacikstan)
• Telugu: తజికిస్తాన్ (te) (tajikistān)
• Thai: ทาจิกิสถาน (th) (taa-jì-gís-tǎan)
• Tibetan: ཐ་ཇི་ཁེ་སི་ཏན (tha ji khe si tan)
• Turkish: Tacikistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Täjigistan

  Cyrillic: Тәжигистан

• Udmurt: Таджикистан (Tadžikistan)
• Ukrainian: Таджикиста́н (uk) m (Tadžykystán)
• Urdu: تاجِکِسْتان m (tājikistān)
• Uyghur: تاجىكىستان (tajikistan)
• Uzbek: Tojikiston (uz)

  Cyrillic: Тожикистон (Tojikiston)

• Vietnamese: Tát-gi-ki-xtan
• Volapük: Tacikistän
• West Frisian: Tadzjikistan
• Western Panjabi: تاجکستان (tājkstān)
• Wolof: Tajikistaan
• Yakut: Тадьикистан (Tajikistan)
• Yiddish: טאַדזשיקיסטאַן n (tadzhikistan)
• Yoruba: Tajikistan
• Zazaki: Tacikıstan

Further reading

• Tajikistan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen