Definition of Kirghiz

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

Exact synonyms: Khirghiz, Kirgiz
Generic synonyms: Turki

2. Noun. A landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991.

3. Noun. The Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz.
Exact synonyms: Khirghiz, Kirgiz
Generic synonyms: Turki, Turkic, Turkic Language, Turko-tatar

Definition of Kirghiz

1. Proper noun. A language of Kyrgyzstan. ¹

2. Proper noun. Turkish ethnic group in Kyrgyzstan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirghiz

Kiracofe
Kiran
Kirby
Kirby-Bauer test
Kirby calculus
Kirchhoff
Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's current law
Kirchhoff's laws
Kirchhoff's voltage law
Kirchner
Kirchnerism
Kirchoff's circuit laws
Kirchoff's current law
Kirchoff's voltage law
Kirghiz
Kirghizia
Kirghizstan
Kirgiz
Kirgizia
Kirgizstan
Kiribatese
Kiribati
Kiribati dollar
Kiribatian
Kiribatians
Kirill
Kirishima
Kiritimati
Kiriwinan

Literary usage of Kirghiz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"Note on the supposed lost Language and Antiquity of the kirghiz, ... But while the kirghiz of the Thian-shan are alluded to by Chinese chroniclers of the ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"kirghiz, a large and wide-spread division of the Mongolo-Tatar family, of which there are two main branches, the Kara-kirghiz of the uplands and the ..."

3. Through Asia by Sven Anders Hedin (1899)
"CHAPTER XXXIII LIFE AMONG THE kirghiz BEFORE we leave the highlands of the Pamirs, and return to Kashgar, I should like to say a few words about the kirghiz ..."

4. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1892)
"kirghiz and Iranian original inhabitants from the towns. ... We turn next to the kirghiz, who, in numerical strength as well as by reason of a rigid ..."

5. The Native Races of the Russian Empire by Robert Gordon Latham (1854)
"It is through the kirghiz country that the caravans go from Orenburg to Bokhara, and from Bokhara to Orenburg, by the way of Khiva ; so that the kirghiz ..."

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