What is "uzbek"

Usage examples of "uzbek".

Merchants in flowing silk robes sat cross-legged before their booths, extolling the quality of their goods--Mosul silk, matchlocks from Herat, edged weapons from India, and seed pearls from Baluchistan, hawk-like Afghans and weapon-girdled Uzbeks jostled him.

Persian so that he could communicate freely with Bokharan officials, but to conceal his knowledge of Uzbek on the chance that he might overhear useful comments by men who thought that he did not understand.

The accustomed eye can spot the turbans of Afridis, Waziris, Ghilzai and Pakistani from nearby, contrasting with the Chitrali caps from farther north and the fur-trimmed winter hats of Tajiks and Uzbeks.

For a moment Guli Sarahi conferred with the newcomer, who appeared to be an Uzbek.

I might not die of cold, or heat, or thirst, or starvation, or at the hands of robbers, Pathans, Tadjiks, Uzbeks, or Turkomen.

In the er western regions, for example, the uh so-called Uighur and the ahem Uzbek, Kirghiz, Kazhak and er Tazhik.

Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Georgians, Ukranians, Uzbeks, Khirgizians, Moldavians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, and dozens of other Soviet cultural and linguistic minorities, which nearly a century of forced association had failed to ho­mogenize into a "Russian" people, would vote with their feet and secede from central control.

She stared for a moment at the icon that represented her own little battlegroup - in addition to the battlecruisers she had the Hun-class scout cruiser Uzbek and the CLE Marblehead - and then turned to Hafezi.

Certainly not among the Uzbeks or Buryats, nor among the women who tended cement mixers like so many milkmaids around a cow.

It seems the Uzbek police who were charged with the security of the refugees were actually stealing and looting the refugees' possessions piled in open cars at the back of the train as the Tajiks watched helplessly from the passenger cars in front.

Everyone was an American now, or at least Americanized: Indians, Iranians, Uzbeks, Japanese, Lilliputians, all.

The Uzbek traded mostly among the more fundamentalist IF brigades, who wouldn't drink the vodka anyway, and the Russian would make a killing from his alcoholic and lonely compatriots.

For within Turkestan are not only Turkic peoples such as Turkomans, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, and Uighurs, but large pockets of Persian Tajiks and Caucasian tribes, and much smaller islands of Balti Tibetans and mongoloid races.

Red Crescent and Red Cross inspectors reported that the refugees were made welcome by their coreligionists, the Uigurs, Kirghiz, Uzbeks, Tadjiks, and Kazakhs, who had lived in that part of China from time immemorial.

He explained that since his wife’s family was Uzbek and his children half-Uzbek, half-Russian, he hoped at first that the Uzbeks would manage themselves better than the Russians had managed them.