KIRGHIZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kirghiz mean? 

• KIRGHIZ (noun)
  The noun KIRGHIZ has 3 senses:

1. a member of a people vast regions of central Siberia

2. a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991

3. the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz

  Familiarity information: KIRGHIZ used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KIRGHIZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people vast regions of central Siberia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz

Hypernyms ("Kirghiz" is a kind of...):

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kirghiz; Kirghizia; Kirghizstan; Kirgiz; Kirgizia; Kirgizstan; Kyrgyz Republic; Kyrgyzstan

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Kirghiz"):

Bishkek; Biskek; capital of Kyrgyzstan; Frunze (the capital of Kyrgyzstan (known as Frunze 1926-1991))

Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)

Holonyms ("Kirghiz" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Holonyms ("Kirghiz" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz

Hypernyms ("Kirghiz" is a kind of...):

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)