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Definition of Kirgiz
1. Noun. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
2. Noun. A landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991.
Group relationships: Cis, Commonwealth Of Independent States
Generic synonyms: Asian Country, Asian Nation
Terms within: Bishkek, Biskek, Capital Of Kyrgyzstan, Frunze, Pamir Mountains, The Pamirs
Group relationships: Asia
3. Noun. The Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz.
Definition of Kirgiz
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Kirghiz) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirgiz
Literary usage of Kirgiz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902 by Sven Anders Hedin, Erik Wilhelm Dahlgren, Axel Lagrelius, Nils Gustaf Ekholm, Karl Gustaf Olsson, Wilhelm Leche, Helge Mattias Bäckström, Harald Johansson (1904)
"24. Sart of Taschkent. 1893 25. A boy of Buchara 1891 25. kirgiz of ... 1894 26.
kirgiz girl, Kastern Pamir. 1894 26. kirgiz children ..."
2. In Russian Turkestan: A Garden of Asia and Its People by Annette M. B. Meakin (1903)
"Russian ethnographers divide them into two classes, the dwellers in the mountains
and the dwellers in the plains. The former are called Kara-kirgiz, ..."
3. The Great Siberian Railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1903)
"CHAPTER VI WESTERN SIBERIA AND THE kirgiz STEPPE AT 5 PM we stop for an hour at
Cheliabinsk, 2669 versts from St. Petersburg, and 7112 from Vladivostok, ..."
4. A Ribbon of Iron by Annette M. B. Meakin (1901)
"Chapter III OMSK—A VISIT TO THE kirgiz TT was quite dark long before we reached •*•
Omsk, and feeling rather timid we made anxious inquiries as to whether ..."
5. On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia by Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Zetland (1904)
"... wealth of the province—Tribes, sedentary and nomadic—kirgiz and Kalmuk—The
Chinese quarter—A visit to the ..."
6. The Girl from Nowhere by Baillie Reynolds (1910)
"The statement was evidently of interest to one of the men, whose features did
not seem to be of the true kirgiz type, and who was smoking a pipe that ..."
7. Russia and England in central Asia, tr. by F.C. Daukes by Mikhail Afrikanovich Terentev (1876)
"... to grudge the expenditure on maintaining our position in Central Asia — The
reasons why the kirgiz sympathize with the Russian advance — Present safety ..."
8. Khiva and Turkestan by Henry Spalding (1874)
"strong inclination of the kirgiz for music and poetry, and especially their
aristocratic ... The first thing a kirgiz asks when meeting another is this, ..."
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