Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan from the indigenous Kazakh people (from the Turkish root kazak "nomad;" see COSSACK (Cf. Cossack)) + Iranian root -stan "country, land" (see -STAN (Cf. -stan)).

Etymology dictionary. 2014.

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