Bashkir
/baʃˈkɪə
/noun
1A member of a Muslim people living in the southern Urals.Today, Islam is the second largest religion, after Russian Orthodoxy, with at least 19 million practitioners, and among ethnic minorities most Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Chechens, and Avars, are Sunni Muslim....
- These diverse groups lie scattered from the Caucasus and Ural mountains to eastern Siberia, and include the Tatars, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Sakha, Tuvans, Karachai, Khakass, Altays, and others.
- He attracted a following of peasants, Old Believers, Ural mineworkers, and non-Russians such as Bashkirs and Kalmyks.
2 [mass noun] The Turkic language of the Bashkirs, with about 1 million speakers.Bashkir is spoken principally in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan....
- Bashkir (also referred to as Basquort/Bashkort) is spoken primarily in the republic of Bashkortostan between the Volga River and the Ural mountains in Russia.
- A Turkic language, Bashkir is spoken by one in four residents of Bashkortostan.
adjective
Relating to the Bashkirs or their language.A Rosneft spokesman did not deny the company was interested in the Bashkir assets, the paper said....
- Ufa, with its significant Bashkir population, was one of three ARA districts inhabited largely by Muslims.
- Ufa, the capital of the Bashkir republic, became the wartime seat of the Soviet Ukrainian government.
Origin
Via Russian from Turkic Başkurt.