User-submitted place name Tashkent

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Usage Belarusian, Bulgarian, English, Indonesian, Kazakh, Malay, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Uyghur

Scripts Ташкент(Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Ukrainian) تاشكەنت(Kazakh Arabic, Uyghur)

Pronounced Pron. tahsh-KENT(English)

tash-KENT(English)

tush-KYENT(Russian)

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Meaning & History

From Uzbek Toshkent meaning "stone city", from tosh meaning "stone" and Turkic kend meaning "city". This is the name of the capital city of Uzbekistan.