[tah-jik, -jeek; Russ. tuh-jik] 
) -jik for 1. | 1. | a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China. |
| 2. | Also, Ta⋅ji⋅ki [tah-ji-kee, tah-jee-] . the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet. |
| tajiki | |
noun | |
| the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan |