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Definition of: Tatar
(tä′tər) noun
1. One belonging to any of the Turkic peoples of eastern, western, and Ural Asiatic Russian S.F.S.R. and Soviet Central Asia; also, one of the Turkic Tatars of the Tatar Republic, the Crimea, the Kalmuck area, and the northern Caucasus.
2. Any of the Turkic languages of the Tatars, as Uzbek.
3. Originally, any of the Tungus of Manchuria and Mongolia.
—adjective Of or pertaining to the Tatars. Also Tartar. [<Persian]
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