Crossword clues for tatar
tatar
- A dweller in the Crimea
- Mongolian warrior giving thanks to sailor
- Steppes native
- Early Asian
- Genghis Khan follower
- Volga region native
- Turkic people
- Mongolian warrior
- Mongolian marauder
- Early Mongolian
- Volga native
- Turkic Russian
- Kazan resident
- 13th century Mongol invader
- Volga region resident
- Volga language
- Strait off the Sea of Japan
- Steppes dweller
- Resident along the Volga
- One in the Golden Horde
- Mongol marauder
- Khan subject
- Invader of 13th-century Russia
- Certain Mongolian
- Certain Mongol
- Ancient Mongol marauder
- Volga-Ural ethnic group member
- Volga region language
- Volga District native
- Turkic native of Russia
- Turkic inhabitant of Russia
- Strait between Sakhalin Island and Asia
- Steppes resident
- Steppes inhabitant
- Siberian neighbor
- Russian tribe
- One subdued by Genghis Khan
- Native of Crimea
- Muslim Russian
- Mongolian tribesman
- Mongol foe
- Member of Genghis Khan's horde
- Member of a Turkic ethnic group along the Volga
- Member of a Russian ethnic group
- Many a Volga native
- Language whose alphabet went from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic
- Language heard along the Volga
- Language closely related to Bashkir
- Genghis Khan subject
- Early European invader
- Crimean resident, perhaps
- Crimean language
- Certain Turkic tribesperson
- 13th-century invader
- Golden Horde member
- Mongol invader
- Dweller on the Volga
- Siberian native
- Khan's subject
- Early invader of Europe
- Native of the Steppes
- Crimean native
- Medieval invader of eastern Europe
- Turkic speaker
- Turkic language
- Muslim in Russia
- Dweller along the Volga
- Steppes settler
- Bashkir's close cousin
- Certain Central Asian
- One of a Turkic people
- Subject of Genghis Khan
- Onetime subject of the Mongols
- Volga River native
- A member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups)
- The Turkic language spoken by the Tatar people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains
- A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century
- Tamerlane was one
- Turkic tongue
- Kazan language
- Native of Kazan
- Certain Siberian
- A Turkic language
- Turkic person
- U.S.S.R. republic
- Siberian tradesman
- Russia's _____ Autonomous Republic
- Mongol tribesman
- Siberian tribesman
- Language spoken around Kazan
- Nureyev, for one
- Soviet region, for short
- Golden Horde tribesman
- Crimean dweller
- Soviet Asian
- Soviet republic
- Mongolian invader
- Genghis Khan was one
- Turkic tribesman
- One of the Crimeans
- One of the Golden Horde
- Asian tribesman
- Member of an Asian horde
- Mongol of Asia
- Early resident of the Caucasus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tartar \Tar"tar\, n.
[Per. T[=a]t[=a]r, of Tartar origin.] A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
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A person of a keen, irritable temper.
To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see Tartar.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
The Tatar was one of major Mongol tribes of the 13th century; the word has also been applied to various other peoples such as Turkic Tatar. The "Tatar" clan still exists among the Mongols and Hazaras.
Tatar may also refer to:
Usage examples of "tatar".
Making toward the archepiscopal palace, the column could not manage any pace faster than a slow walk through streets thronged with foreignersScots, Irish, Burgundians, Germans from several parts of the Empire, Livonians, a scattering of Kalmyks or Tatars.
A plague outbreak did indeed erupt in Kaffa, and the Tatars took the city.
Tatars, too, who had wandered into Asia Minor and been ground into the Ottoman empire with the rest--stocky Kalmucks, who had been on the point of mutiny at the beginning of the march, but had been quieted by a harangue from Donald MacDeesa, in their own tongue.
On a lepidopterological expedition in late summer Nabokov visited Chufut-kale and Bakhchisaray, the ancient residence of the Tatar khans in central Crimea whose fountain provides the title for two famous Pushkin poems.
Their Tatar names are still marked on maps of southern Russia and the Volga lands: Penza, Chembar, Ardym, Anybei, Kevda, Ardatov and Alatyr.
Alexandra was puzzled by a dozen polished black granite stones, each engraved with the names and dates of Polonized Tatars, along with a crescent moon and a star.
The continual marriages of these people with the chosen beauties of Georgia and Circassia have overpowered the original ugliness of their Tatar ancestors.
Duke Friederich and Archcount Vladalong of my condottas and those of the justly famous condottiere Sir Wenceslaus, Count Horeszko, had but just thoroughly defeated the southeastern ordus of the Khan of the Tatars and what with the unbelievably rich loot of their baggage trains and base camp, it was every high-ranking professional officer was just then owning enough of a fortune for to buy the most of my carefully assembled condottas off of me.
Hitherto, in all my wandering, I had been under the care of other people - sailors, Tatars, guides, and dragomen had watched over my welfare, but now at last I was here in this African desert, and I myself, and no other, had charge of my life.
Ahead the Tatars twisted and writhed, mouthed tortured cries, then dropped out of their saddles to lie limply on the ground as if the arrows aimed at the master had instead struck each to the heart.
The other gentleman—Scot or Irisher, by the look of him—and the Tatar trailed close behind the leading trio.
The other gentlemanScot or Irisher, by the look of himand the Tatar trailed close behind the leading trio.
Travis was still of two minds about this questioning, but the Tatar camp had been close to the towers and there was a good chance the Mongols had explored them.