a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia
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 ]
the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz