Uzbekistan

From Russian Узбекистан (Uzbekistan), itself from Classical Persian اُزْبَکِسْتَان (uzbakistān). Ultimately uncertain; possibly from Turkic uz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [Term?] (/bek/, “master”) (for the second element, see Turkish bey). The suffix is known to be from Classical Persian ـِستان (istān, “stan”).

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اُزْبَکِسْتَان

In Uzbekistan, forced sterilizations apparently began in 2004 and became official state policy in 2009.

2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 234:

Republic of Uzbekistan
Republic of Uzbekistan#English

A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.


Uzbek

From Russian узбек (uzbek), from Uzbek oʻzbek. Further etymology is uncertain; possibly from Turkic öz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [script needed] (βγ /beġ/, “master”); the latter from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰagás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás. The first element is often thought to be equivalent to English Oghuz.


som

From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]").

Kyrgyzstani som
Som (currency)
Uzbekistani sum


marshrutka

From Russian маршру́тка (maršrútka), colloquial clipping of маршру́тное такси́ (maršrútnoje taksí, “routed taxi”), from маршру́т (maršrút, “planned route”) and такси́ (taksí, “taxi”).

(Russia and nearby countries) Synonym of shared taxi in former Soviet contexts, particularly a minibus on fixed routes.

երթուղային տաքսի

shared Soviet-style minibus — see also shared taxi, minibus


Khiva

It now occurred to him that possession of Khiva, which lay midway between his own frontiers and those of India, would provide him with the staging point he needed in the region.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 17:

A small historical town in present-day Uzbekistan, former capital of Khwarezm, and a former khanate.


Kyzyl Kum

a large desert in Central Asia in the doab between the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, divided between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan


tiyin

Borrowed from Kazakh тиын (tiyn) or Uzbek tiyin, тийин (tiyin), both originally meaning "squirrel", because in the ancient era squirrel pelts were used as currency. Compare Kazakh тиін (tiın, “squirrel”), Kyrgyz тыйын (tıyın, “kopek, coin, squirrel”) Uyghur تىيىن (tiyin, “squirrel, kopeck”), dialectal Turkish teyin, Khakas тиин (tiin), Yakut тииҥ (tiiñ), etc.

cog

A currency unit of Uzbekistan, one hundredth of a som.


zakatchi

(historical) A tax collector in what is now Uzbekistan.


amlakdar

(historical) A senior tax collector in what is now Uzbekistan.


Uzbekize

en-verb

Uzbekize (third-person singular simple present Uzbekizes, present participle Uzbekizing, simple past and past participle Uzbekized)

Uzbekizes (present singular third-person)
Uzbekizing (participle present)
Uzbekized (participle past)
Uzbekized (past)

The Central Asian Bureau of the Central Corzo, whee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Central Colomittee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, and the Centrol Executive Committee of Uzbekistan decided to Uzbekize the apparatus of these organizations 100 per cent by September 1, 1930.

1952, John Stephen Reshetar, Michael M. Luther, Aspects of the Nationality Problem in USSR:

2007, Solomon I. Baevskii, Early Persian Lexicography: Farhangs of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries, Global Oriental (→ISBN), pgae xi
The names of authors of works in Russian and Tajik as cited in the bibliographies show some spelling inconsistencies. This is because, during the Soviet period, Tajik names were usually Russianized (in some cases, additionally Uzbekized, mostly by the change of f to p);

The demand was based on the argument that Uzbek authorities were forcibly Uzbekizing the Tajik population of Uzbekistan.

2015, Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 367:


Tashkenter

One young Osh Uzbek man traveled to Tashkent in 2004 and met residents there who were eager to tell their stories of hardship to him, an outsider. A Tashkenter said he could not buy shoes or schoolbooks for his children, and another exclaimed, “At least you Oshliks [Osh residents] have Akaev, thank God, and economic freedom.”

2012, Morgan Y. Liu, “Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal”, in Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 194:

A native or inhabitant of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.