Source : WordNet®

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