kirghizstan

Other forms of kirghizstan

plural

kirghizstans·

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 kirghizstan

What does kirghizstan mean?

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

How many syllables are in kirghizstan?

kirghizstan has 3 syllables and divides as kirg-hiz-stan under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for kirghizstan?

Close synonyms include Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kirghizia, Kirgizia, Kirghiz. 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 kirghizstan a common word?

kirghizstan 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.