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Kirgiz

noun

1. a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia

• Syn: ↑Kirghiz, ↑Khirghiz

• Hypernyms: ↑Turki

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, ↑Kirghizstan, ↑Kirgizstan

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Asian country, ↑Asian nation

• Member Holonyms: ↑Commonwealth of Independent States, ↑CIS

• Part Holonyms: ↑Asia

• Part Meronyms: ↑Bishkek, ↑Biskek, ↑Frunze, ↑capital of Kyrgyzstan, ↑Pamir Mountains, ↑the Pamirs

3. the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz

• Syn: ↑Kirghiz, ↑Khirghiz

• Hypernyms: ↑Turki, ↑Turkic, ↑Turko-Tatar, ↑Turkic language

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noun

see kirghiz

Useful english dictionary. 2012.