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The name "Tajik" (Persian: تاجیک, romanized: tājīk, Tajik: тоҷик, romanized: tojik) did not always have the same meaning and did always serve as the self-designation of the present-day Tajik people. It started out as a name given by outsiders . The Middle Persian (or Sogdian or Parthian) word tāzīk ("Arab") is the commonly ...
The origin of the name Tajik has been embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia. The explanation most favored by scholars is that the word evolved from the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) Arab tribe. [1]
For instance, the President of Tajikistan, Emomalii Rahmon, dropped the Russian suffix "-ov" from his surname and directed others to adopt Tajik names when registering births. [100] According to a government announcement in October 2009, approximately 4,000 Tajik nationals have dropped "ov" and "ev" from their surnames since the start of the year.
In 1934, leading Russian director Lev Kuleshov was sent to Tajikistan to improve the quality of local movies. He worked for two years at a movie based on the novel Dokhunda by Tajik national poet Sadriddin Ayni, but the project was regarded with suspicion by the authorities as possibly exciting Tajik nationalism, and stopped. No footage survives.
It is a compound of the Persian words فر (far) meaning 'splendour' and یال (yâl) meaning 'neck'. The overall meaning of this name is thus 'the one with a beautiful neck, good neck'. Women with this given name include: Ferial Qadin (died 1902), consort to Ismail Pasha; Farial of Egypt (1938–2009), princess
The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860s. The Basmachi revolt broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was quelled in the early 1920s during the Russian Civil War. In 1924, Tajikistan became an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the Tajik ASSR, within Uzbekistan.
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Pataakha [2] (pronounced [pəʈaːkʰaː]; transl. Firecracker) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language drama film produced, written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. It stars Sanya Malhotra and debutante Radhika Madan. [3] [4] The plot is based on Charan Singh Pathik's short story Do Behnein. [5] It was theatrically released worldwide on 28 September ...