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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There are only Kalmucks and Kirghiz people here.
From Time Magazine Archive
Russia and China have been wrestling for years along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Some 4,000,000 are Uighurs, descendants of the 9th century Turkic invaders, and 600,000 are Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Tadjiks.
From Time Magazine Archive
While these events were in progress at Tashkent, an envoy arrived there from Sadic Beg, a Kirghiz prince on the frontiers of Ili and Kashgar.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
The Kirghizes who should have furnished us with a tent had been delayed on a pass by an avalanche of snow which overwhelmed forty sheep.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
When the sun was at its height I was escorted to the arena by forty-two Kirghizes, who rode beside and behind me.
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
The Kirghizes walked on foot and urged the animals up towards the giddy heights.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
Islam Bay, six Kirghizes, and ten yaks were in readiness before sunrise, and we took with us ample provisions, fur coats, spades and alpenstocks, food and a tent.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
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