Kirghiz
Americannoun
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a member of a formerly nomadic people dwelling chiefly in Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan).
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the Turkic language of the Kirghiz.
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In this collaboration between subject and filmmaker, Hopkins uses Kirghiz people, several of whom endured all five migrations, to reenact the dramatic journey from the freezing Tajikistan mountains-with altitudes of 4,000 meters-to Pakistan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Communist Young Pioneers on vacation play volleyball on river banks where Kirghiz nomads used to light their campfires.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sakin Begmatova, Foreign Minister of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic,* began by stating, "We wanted to make sure that no one strangles the Afghans' people's revolution."
From Time Magazine Archive
From the rugged Kirghiz steppes they came, from the Hi River basin, from the trackless plains of sprawling Russia and from Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only other craft, except the steamships of the Russians, that venture on the waters, are the flat-bottomed boats of the Kirghiz.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Among them might be noticed the chief of the Kirghizes who lived on the eastern side of Mus-tagh-ata.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
The black tents of the Kirghizes stand scattered about like spots on a panther's skin.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
One day the chiefs of the Kirghizes decided to hold a grand festival in my honour.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
The ten yaks stood tethered in the snow outside, and the Kirghizes curled themselves up in their skin coats like hedgehogs.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
They are charmingly sweet, and it is hard to believe that they will grow up into tall rough half-wild Kirghizes.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
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