Definition/Meaning of buzkashi
- English - Noun: buzkashi ( uncountable ) ( games , sports ) A team sport originating in Central Asia , where the players , all on horseback , try to place an animal carcass into a goal .
- English - Etymology: A sort of mounted polo played predominantly by Turkic peoples in northern Afghanistan with a goat carcass . From Persian Ø¨Ø²Ú©Ø´Û ( buz-kaÅ¡i, boz-keÅ¡i ); compound of بز ( boz ), meaning "goat" + Ú©Ø´ ( kaÅ¡ ), meaning "dragging, drawing" + ÙÛ ( -i ). The term "buzkashi" is used in the Persian lingua franca of northern Afghanistan and Kabul , meaning "goat-grabbing" or "goat-dragging"…
- English - References: ^ Online Etymology Dictionary: "buzkashi" ^ G . Whitney Azoy: Buzkashi , game and power in Afghanistan . University of Pennsylvania Press , 1982. Page 74. â 3 . 0 3 . 1 G . Whitney Azoy, Buzkashi: Game and ÃPower in Afghanistan , Third Edition . Waveland Press 2011. pp .3-4. ^ Ted Rall - Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? NBM, 2006. pp .207-208 â 5 . 0 5 . 1 G . Whitney…