Azerbaijanize

From Azerbaijani +‎ -ize.

Azerbaijanize (third-person singular simple present Azerbaijanizes, present participle Azerbaijanizing, simple past and past participle Azerbaijanized)

1. to make Azerbaijani.
   • 1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia:

     But this sleep keeps being disturbed: the Georgification of Abkhazians; the long-time desire to Azerbaijanize the Armenians in Nagornyy Karabakh; the Russification of the Arabic alphabet in the languages of the peoples of Central Asia,

   • 1996, Ronald Grigor Suny, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Transcaucasia, nationalism and social change: essays in the history of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, Univ of Michigan Pr, page 439

     During the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan legislatively Azerbaijanized its minorities, and Kurds, Lezgins, Talyshes, Avars, Meshkhetian Turks, and other small ethnic communities were labeled Azerbaijanis on their personal documents,

   • 2012, Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 79:

     Pseudo-democracy was sometimes seen in ethnically adapted images of Stalin, as in a huge portrait of an Azerbaijanized Stalin hanging on the wall behind a Baku husband and wife putting their ballots in the box.