Bashkir

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

noun

, plural Bash·kirs, (especially collectively) Bash·kir

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

But he insists the words he used in the Bashkir language mean "poor people" and were mistranslated into Russian.

From BBC

Alsynov has also in the past criticised military mobilisation in the region as "genocide" of the Bashkir people, a Turkic race closely related to the Tatars which inhabits the southern Ural mountains.

From BBC

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