Tatar
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8.7
- noun
- /ˈtɑːtɑr/
:
tártaro
- During his enslavement, Varsonofii learned Tatar, providing him the skill to lead conversion efforts.
Examples
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The State Department arranged for Radio Jidda in Saudi Arabia to broadcast religious programming in the Tatar language.
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Others would point out, accurately, that such a policy would, in effect, discriminate in favor of Ukrainians, Latvians, and other groups whose independence movements crested during the Cold War, and against groups like Ossetians and Tatars whose movements arose later.
Academic text (1992) -
"The Russian and Tatar Presidents have accepted French mediation."
Fiction book (2001) -
"The Russian Kremlin," he said, "comes from the Tatar word for 'fortress.'
Fiction book (2001) -
"Turkic- and Tatar-speaking Siberians name it the Birds' Way and the Wild Ducks' Way.
Academic text (1991) -
Probably no other nation in history has been shaken to the degree and depth that Russia has by events such as the Tatar-Mongol occupation, the reforms of Peter the Great, seventy years of communism, perestroika, and post-perestroika.
Academic text (1996) -
She too spoke in French, although she could have answered him in Tatar as well.
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The Russian Kremlin comes from the Tatar word for 'fortress.'
Synonyms
A language spoken by the Tatar people mainly in the area between the Volga and Ural Mountains in Russia
Compounds
A language spoken by the Tatar people mainly in the area between the Volga and Ural Mountains in Russia
- Archaic
A group of related languages like Turkish and Tatar that people speak in Central Asia
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Tatar for the language comes from the name of the people who speak it, a Turkic group from the region between the Volga and Ural Mountains in Russia. So, like English is the language of the English, Tatar is the speech of the Tatar people.