Hazara
- proper noun
- The Hazara people celebrate their unique culture through vibrant festivals and traditional music.
- Tajik and Hazara
- Uzbek and Hazara
Examples
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There are Hazara, Pakhtun, Uzbeks, and Tajiks—all areas of neighboring states cobbled together in a manufactured buffer state called "Afghanistan."
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This has obscured the fact that the war was won by a U.S.-supported coalition of ethnic groups, mainly Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara, known as the Northern Alliance.
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So there's a visual artist I would highlight for you named Khadam Ali is a Hazara based in Australia.
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In West Kabul, the heart of the Hazara community, a heady, almost frenzied atmosphere has been growing all week.
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At present, there are only Hazara and Tajik youth in the group, largely because the population of Bamiyan Province is almost exclusively Hazara and Tajik.
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Consistently, the people of the Pashtun regions saw things significantly worse than those in the majority Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara regions.
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Iran has also empowered the historically marginalized Afghan Shiites, such as the Hazara and the Qizilbash, who constitute about 20 percent of the Afghan population.
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Many Hazara students face challenges in accessing education due to their minority status in Afghanistan.
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A Hazara artist showcased his works at an international exhibition, highlighting the beauty of his heritage.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hazara probably began as the word hezar or hazar meaning 'thousand', a label for a band of soldiers in Mongol times, and later became the name of the people. So a Hazara is a person of that ethnic group and culture.