Kazak n 1: a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan) [syn: {Kazakh}] 2: 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 [syn: {Kazakhstan}, {Republic of Kazakhstan}, {Kazakstan}, {Kazakh}] 3: the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak people [syn: {Kazakh}]