UZBEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uzbek mean? 

• UZBEK (noun)
  The noun UZBEK has 3 senses:

1. a member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas

2. a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

3. the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek

  Familiarity information: UZBEK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UZBEK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek

Hypernyms ("Uzbek" is a kind of...):

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Uzbekistan; Uzbek; Uzbekistan

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Uzbek"):

capital of Uzbek; Tashkent; Taskent (the capital of Uzbekistan)

Samarcand; Samarkand (city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century)

Kizil Kum; Kyzyl Kum; Qizil Qum (a desert in Uzbekistan to the southeast of the Aral Sea)

Domain member region:

IMU; Islamic Group of Uzbekistan; Islamic Party of Turkestan (a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries)

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

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Holonyms ("Uzbek" 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek

Hypernyms ("Uzbek" is a kind of...):

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)