Kirgiz
n 1: a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race
inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia [syn: Kirghiz,
Khirghiz]
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]
3: the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz people [syn: Kirghiz,
Khirghiz]