Cossack vs. Kazakh — What's the Difference?

A member of a people of Ukraine and southern Russia, noted for their horsemanship and military skill.

A member of a people living chiefly in Kazakhstan. Traditionally nomadic, Kazakhs are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

Relating to or characteristic of the Cossacks.

The Turkic language of the Kazakhs, with over 7 million speakers.

A member of a people of southern European Russia and adjacent parts of Asia. Many Cossacks served as cavalrymen in the armies of the czars.

Relating to the Kazakhs or their language.

Alternative case form of Cossack

Of or relating to Kazakhstan or its people, language, or culture.

One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

A native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan.

A member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia

A person of Kazakh ancestry.

A member of a Turkic people inhabiting Kazakhstan and parts of Xinjiang in China.

The Turkic language of the Kazakhs.

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