WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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