/tah jik", -jeek"/ ; Russ. /tu jik"/ , n. , pl. Tajiks , ( esp. collectively ) Tajik for 1.
1. a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
2. Also, Tajiki /tah"ji kee, tah jee"-/ . the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Also, Tadjik, Tadzhik .