kirghiz

Other forms of kirghiz

plural

kirghizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kirghiz

What does kirghiz mean?

kirghiz means "a member of a people vast regions of central Siberia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kirghiz?

kirghiz has 2 syllables: kirg-hiz. The stress falls on "kirg".

What is another word for kirghiz?

Close synonyms include Kirgiz, Khirghiz, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kirghizia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kirghiz a common word?

kirghiz is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.