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1. (n.) Tatar
a member of a modern Turkic-speaking people living in the Tatar AR and adjacent regions of E European Russia and in scattered communities in W Siberia and central Asia.
2. Tatar
the language of this people.
Etymology: (1805–15; see Tartar)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Tatar, Tartar, Mongol Tatar
a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century
2. (noun) Tatar
a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups)
3. (noun) Tatar
the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Tatar
a word derived from a Turanian root signifying "to pitch a tent," hence appropriate to nomadic tribes, became converted by European chroniclers into Tartar, a fanciful derivative from Tartaros (Gr. hell), and suggestive of fiends from hell. Tartary, as a geographical expression of the Middle Ages, embraced a vast stretch of territory from the Dnieper, in Eastern Europe, to the Sea of Japan; but subsequently dwindled away to Chinese and Western Turkestan.
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