Tajikistan means the "Land of the Tajiks". The suffix "-stan" (Persian: ـستان‎‎ -stān) is Persian for "place of" or "country" and Tajik is, most likely, the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) tribe. According to the Library of Congress's 1997 Country Study of Tajikistan, it is difficult to definitively state the origins of the word "Tajik" because the term is "embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia." COUNT 4
QSN1 Where did the word Tajik come from? ANS1 the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) tribe QSN2 What does Tajikistan mean? ANS2 "Land of the Tajiks" QSN3 What does the suffix -stan mean? ANS3 "place of" or "country" QSN4 Why is it hard to find the origin of the word Tajik? ANS4 because the term is "embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia."