AZERBAJDZHAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Azerbajdzhan mean? 

• AZERBAJDZHAN (noun)
  The noun AZERBAJDZHAN has 1 sense:

1. a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

  Familiarity information: AZERBAJDZHAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AZERBAJDZHAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Azerbaijan; Azerbaijani Republic; Azerbajdzhan; Azerbajdzhan Republic

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Azerbajdzhan"):

Baku; capital of Azerbaijan (a port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production)

Domain member region:

Jayshullah (an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999)

Holonyms ("Azerbajdzhan" is a part of...):

Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)

Holonyms ("Azerbajdzhan" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)