kirgizstan

Other forms of kirgizstan

plural

kirgizstans·

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 kirgizstan

What does kirgizstan mean?

kirgizstan 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 kirgizstan?

kirgizstan has 3 syllables and divides as kir-giz-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 kirgizstan?

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 kirgizstan a common word?

kirgizstan 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.