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Definition of Khirghiz
1. Noun. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
2. Noun. The Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Khirghiz
Literary usage of Khirghiz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographic by Ellsworth Huntington (1907)
"As the Karakorum plateau is for the most part too high and cold to be inhabited,
we saw but a few score Khirghiz on the way from India to Turkestan. ..."
2. The Romance of Savage Life: Describing the Life of Primitive Man, His by George Francis Scott Elliot (1908)
"... caravan changing pastures—Nomad huts—A dinner in Turkestan—Tea, cream, fermented
milk, and mutton—The Abyssinian Boran—Berbers of Morocco—Khirghiz of ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1871)
"The Khirghiz have scattered, and Pamir lies uninhabited. ... near a deserted
house of the Khirghiz, where the river is fordable. The road is pretty good, ..."
4. Principles of Human Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Sumner W. Cushing (1922)
"An Example of Human Geography: Khirghiz Nomads of Central Asia. ... Some of the
Khirghiz of Central Asia are wandering herdsmen, or pastoral nomads, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"The Khirghiz have scattered, and Pamir lies uninhabited. ... near a deserted
house of the Khirghiz, where the river is fordable. The road is pretty good, ..."
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