List of original Tatar and Russian terms with explanations. Original pronunciation by native speaker is offered under each term.

Original term

Transliteration

Explanation

English Alternative

кайылы күн (term in Tatar Language)

kaiyly kün

Ornamental leather cutouts decorated with stitching along the edges

Tatar Leather Mosaic

каймалы читeк (term in Tatar language)

kaimaly shchiteq

Soft colorful/ colored leather sock-like boot fully decorated with unique kayily kün technology

(decorated) shchiteq Tatar boot(s)

каймасыз читек (term in Tatar language)

kaimasyz shchiteq

Soft leather sock-like boot without decoration (usually in darker colors and ). Suffix -syz indicates absence of attribute in Turkic languages

shchiteq in many Islamic, Turkic countries shortened version is also called masi/maxsi (from Arabic  مَسْ “mash” meaning “to wipe”). Those leather socks are indented to be kept on the feet when entering a mosque for prayer: during ablution it is considered sufficient to wipe those over and do not take them off.

Татарлар (term in Tatar language)  Татары (term in Russian language)

Tatarlar

Acquired / non-native ethnonym for one of many indigenous Turkic, Muslim group of Voga-Ural area of modern Rossiyan Federation. In historical documents, also referred as (Volga) Bulgars, Muslims, Magometans, Kipchaks, polovtsy, pechenegs, Idel-Ural Tatars. Also reffered as Tartars in Western historic sources. Read more here.

The modern Tatars include: Volga Tatars Idel-Ural Tatars Astrakhan Tatars Siberian Tatars Lipka Tatars Crimean Tatars

Российская Федерация Россия (Russian term)

Rossiyskaya Federatsya Rossiya

Russia is habitual wide-spread naming in western sources of original Rossiya (short for Rossiyskaya Federatsiya). The original incorporates the notion of multi-ethnic state with over 100 indigenous ethnicities. English Russia reflects the titular ethnicity exclusively that misleads English language users into wrong assumption of the country being mono-ethnic.

Rossiyan Federation

русский / русская/ русское (term in Russian language)

russkiy / russkaya / russkoye

An adjective for dominant/ titular ethnicity of Rossiyan Federation. Different suffixes indicate gender -iy for male, -aya for femail, -oye for neither/neutral

Russian

Российский/ Российская/ Российское) (term in Russian language)

Rossiyskiy/ Rossiyskaya/ Rossiyskoye

An adjective for Rossiya that implies belonging to the multi-ethnic state. Although, etymologically both words russkiy and Rossiyskiy are derived from the same slavic root, currently, Rossiyskiy encompasses all diverse ethnic population with distinct languages and cultures of State of Rossiyan Federation.

Rossiyan