Bashkir

[ bahsh-keer, bash-; Russian buh-shkyeer ]

noun

plural Bashkirs, (especially collectively) Bashkir

1. a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.
2. the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar.

Bashkir

/ bæʃˈkɪə /

noun

1. -kir-kirs a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

Example Sentences

The protest, driven by tensions between indigenous Bashkir people and ethnic Russians, raised the specter of new cultural and nationalist divisions.

From Seattle Times

Bashkir singer Altynai Valitov was visited by local authorities in Ufa after he put out a call on Instagram for protests to take place both in Bashkortostan and elsewhere in Russia.

From BBC

Alsynov, the convicted activist, was a leader of a group that advocated the preservation of the Bashkir language and culture and protested against limestone and gold mining operations in the region.

From Seattle Times

Hundreds of protesters clashed with the police on Wednesday in the provincial town of Baymak, near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, after a local court sentenced an advocate for the local Bashkir ethnic minority to four years in prison.

From New York Times

Mr. Alsynov had called for greater cultural and economic autonomy for the predominantly Muslim Bashkir people of Russia’s Ural Mountains.

From New York Times