A Russian tribal design from the Caucasian mtns.

a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)

a landlocked republic south of Russia and northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991

the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak people

a descendent of one who left the Mongol horde (ordu)

In origin, a tribal name, now a town, river and district in the extreme west of Azerbaijan, the Caucuses. Kazak rugs are noted for their coarse, long-pile carpets with shiny wool and vigorous designs. The weavers were Turkic nomads, now settled, who came to the region at the time of the great westward migration of Turks in the eleventh century.