Uzbek

Central Asian nationality

Uzbek refers to a Turkic people native to Central Asia, primarily Uzbekistan, or a member of that people.

The word also designates their language, part of the Turkic family and written in a modified Latin script since the 1990s.

As an adjective, it describes things relating to Uzbekistan, its people, or their culture: Uzbek cuisine, the Uzbek government.

SilkRoad

caravanserai

Traveler's courtyard lodge

caravanTraveling group with goods
merchantsThose who conduct commerce
tradeExchange of commodities

bazaar · madrasa · minaret · Tamerlane · routes · spices · silk · camels · textiles · commodities

geography

Tashkent

Uzbekistan's capital city

SamarkandHistoric Central Asian city
steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
oasisFertile desert spot

culture

ikat

Resist-dye textile patterning

ceramicsHardened clay objects
atlasBound collection of charts
miniatureReduced-scale representation

calligraphy · tilework · woodcarving · coppersmith · embroidery · wedding · hospitality · teahouse

people

diaspora

Scattered population sharing origins

heritageInherited cultural legacy
ancestryFamily line of descent
TajikPerson from Dushanbe's country

Turkic · identity · kinship · clan · community · elders · tradition · migration · Soviet · independence

cuisine

non

Prefix denying something

kabobSkewered grilled meat
halvaNutty, dense confection
green teaUnoxidized Camellia sinensis infusion

Categories

AsiaChina, India, Japan, Thailand, Korea
Agglutinative LanguagesTurkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean
Asian peoplesChinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai
Eurasian LanguagesTurkish, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Kazakh
Turkicagglutination, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Azerbaijani
Afghan PeoplesAfghans, Pashtuns, Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbeks

Opposites

Central Asian ethnic/national identity

Central Asian ethnicity

Tajik · Kyrgyz · Turkmen · Persian · Uyghur

Family

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