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

[ Syn: kirghiz , kirgiz , khirghiz ]

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

[ Syn: kirghiz , kirgiz , khirghiz ]