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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 ...
Iran offered some support to develop again a Tajik movie production. In turn, some Tajik directors worked in co-operation with Iranian companies. [4] On November 25, 2004, Tajikistan passed a "Law about Cinema," aimed at promoting local productions and films in Tajik language. [4] In 2006, a Tajik-Iranian film, Bihisht faqat baroi murdagon, was ...
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 1924, Tajikistan became an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the Tajik ASSR, within Uzbekistan. In 1929, Tajikistan was made one of the component republics of the Soviet Union – Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR) – and it kept that status until gaining independence 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet ...
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]
While the Library of Congress's 1997 Country Study of Tajikistan found it difficult to definitively state the origins of the word "Tajik" because the term is "embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranic peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia," [24] scholars concluded that contemporary Tajiks ...
Traditional centers of Tajik literature were Samarkand and Bukhara, however these cities are now in Uzbekistan. In recent history, Tajik literature has been predominantly social realist. Though Tajiks do not draw a line, between their own literature and general Persian literature, there have been a few notable Tajik writers and poets. The ...
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