- relating to or denoting a group of mainly Sunni Muslim peoples of the NW Caucasus(与)切尔克斯人(有关)的(主要是逊尼派穆斯林的一部分人, 居于高加索西北部)。
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- a member of this people切尔克斯人。
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- mass noun either of two North Caucasian languages of these peoples, Adyghe and Kabardian切尔克斯语(包括两种北高加索语: 阿迪格语和卡巴尔达语)。亦称
C HERKESS.
词源
from Circassia, Latinized form of Russian Cherkes, denoting a district in the northern Caucasus.