Azerbaijanize

English Etymology From en Azerbaijani ize. Verb to make Azerbaijani. en 1992 FBIS Report: Central Eurasia But this sleep keeps being disturbed: the Georgification of Abkhazians; the long-time desire to Azerbaijanize the Armenians in Nagornyy Karabakh; the Russification of the Arabic alphabet in the languages of the peoples of Central Asia, 1996, Ronald Grigor Suny, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Transcaucasia, nationalism and social change: essays in the history of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, Univ of Michigan Pr, page 439 During the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan legislatively Azerbaijanized its minorities, and Kurds, Lezgins, Talyshes, Avars, Meshkhetian Turks, and other small ethnic communities were labeled Azerbaijanis on their personal documents, en 2012 Jan Plamper The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power Yale University Press 9780300169522 79 Pseudo-democracy was sometimes seen in ethnically adapted images of Stalin, as in a huge portrait of an Azerbaijanized Stalin hanging on the wall behind a Baku husband and wife putting their ballots in the box. Derived terms en Azerbaijanization Translations Esperanto: eo azerbajĝanigi French: fr azerbaïdjaniser Turkish: tr Azerileştirmek