تاجیک

تاجیک

Persian

Etymology

Possibly related to تازیک‎ (tâzik), a re-borrowing from Old Turkic.

According to W. Henning, from *Tāt-čīk, originally *Tād-čīk.

Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج‎ (tāj), from Persian تاج‎ (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.

See Fragner for more discussion.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tɑːd͡ʒik/, /tɑːd͡ʒiːk/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /tɑːd͡ʒɪk/, /tɑːd͡ʒiːk/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /tɒːd͡ʒek/, /tɒːd͡ʒiːk/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /tɔd͡ʒik/

Noun

Dari	تاجک‎
Iranian Persian	تاجیک
Tajik	тоҷик (tojik)

تاجیک • (Tâjik) (plural تاجیک‌ها‎ (Tâjik-hâ) or تاجیکان‎ (Tâjikân))

1. Tajik

   تاجیک‌ها قومی آریایی هستند.‎

   Tâjik-hâ qowmi âryâyi hastand.

   The Tajiks are an Aryan people.

2. (dated) non-Turk

Inflection

Basic forms of تاجیک (Tâjik)
	singular	plural
bare	تاجیک (Tâjik)	تاجیک‌ها (Tâjik-hấ) تاجیکا △ (Tâjikấ)
definitive direct object	تاجیک را (Tâjik râ) تاجیک رو △ (Tâjiko)	تاجیک‌ها را (Tâjik-hấ râ) تاجیکا رو △ (Tâjikấ ro)
ezâfe	تاجیک (Tâjik-e)	تاجیک‌های (Tâjik-hấ-ye) تاجیکای △ (Tâjikấ-ye)
marked indefinite or relative definite	تاجیکی (Tâjik-i)	تاجیک‌هایی (Tâjikấn-i, Tâjik-hấ-i) تاجیکایی △ (Tâjikấi)
△ Colloquial.

Predicative forms of تاجیک (Tâjík)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	تاجیکم‎ (Tâjíkam)	تاجیکیم‎ (Tâjíkim)
2nd person (“you are”)	تاجیکی‎ (Tâjíki)	تاجیکید‎ (Tâjíkid) تاجیکین‎ △ (Tâjíkin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	تاجیک است‎ (Tâjík ast) تاجیکه‎ △ (Tâjíke)	تاجیکند‎ (Tâjíkand) تاجیکن‎ △ (Tâjíkan)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• تاجیکی‎ (Tâjiki)
• تاجیکستان‎ (Tâjikestân)
• فارسی تاجیکی‎ (Fârsi-ye Tâjiki)

Related terms

• تازیک‎ (tâzik), تازک‎ (tâzek)
• تاژیک‎ (tâžik), تاژک‎ (tâžek)
• تات‎ (tât)

References

• B.G. Franger (2000), "Tādjīk", Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. X, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 62–64