from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Kirgiz
n 1: a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race
inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia [syn: {Kirghiz},
{Kirgiz}, {Khirghiz}]
2: a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on
northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became
independent in 1991 [syn: {Kyrgyzstan}, {Kyrgyz Republic},
{Kirghizia}, {Kirgizia}, {Kirghiz}, {Kirgiz}, {Kirghizstan},
{Kirgizstan}]
3: the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz [syn: {Kirghiz},
{Kirgiz}, {Khirghiz}]