Hazara

• Huzara

Hazara (plural Hazaras or Hazara)

1. (Pakistan) A region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.
2. A member of an ethnic group from central Afghanistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 169:

     The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.

Hazara (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Hazaras, an ethnic group from central Afghanistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150:

     Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.