Kirgiz n 1: a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia [syn: {Kirghiz}, {Khirghiz}] 2: a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991 [syn: {Kyrgyzstan}, {Kyrgyz Republic}, {Kirghizia}, {Kirgizia}, {Kirghiz}, {Kirghizstan}, {Kirgizstan}] 3: the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz people [syn: {Kirghiz}, {Khirghiz}]