Kirghiz

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]