bashkir

noun, plural Bash·kirs, (especially collectively) Bash·kir for 1.

1. a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.
2. the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar.

noun

1. plural -kir or -kirs a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family