Chagatai
Speech parts
1. Chagatai - Noun
2. Chagatai - Proper noun
Meaning
a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan)
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Examples
He was a member of the Turkicized Barlas tribe, a Mongol subgroup that had settled in Transoxiana after taking part in Genghis Khan 's son Chagatai 's campaigns in that region.
The Ilkhanate had already fragmented into several political territories and factions struggling to place their puppet leaders over the shell of an old state; the Chagatai Khanate was undermined by religious unrest and fell to rebellion.