For example, ethnonyms such as Turk, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir, Turkmen, Tuvans, and Chuvash are among these early references. These groups have developed through historical processes, and political actors gave these names to the nations they imagined and states they made in the name of these ethnic groups. So, can we add the name of Uzbek nation, with a population of nearly forty million, to this list of ethnonyms in the same sense? The study of the term ‘Özbek’ (Uzbek) has been intensely pursued over the past one hundred ninety years [Савельев 1836: 17; Вамбери 1873: 2-3]. However, the results have been unsatisfactory. With the exception of a few works, most researchers essentially repeat others’ conclusions [see. Ханыков 1843: 53-65; Ахмедов 1965: 12; Lee 2015: 131 – 132; Malikov 2020: 515 – 532; Мақсуд, Бобоёр 2024: 57 – 58]. Perhaps these researchers have not paid enough attention to when and in what form the term was first encountered in sources. Inde