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kyrgyzstan

UK/ˌkɜː.ɡɪˈstɑːn/US/ˌkɝ.ɡɪˈstɑn/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous Central Asian country of nomads and yurts. Ride through Kyrgyzstan.

Over ninety per cent of it is mountain and much of it is above two thousand metres. Kyrgyzstan has one of the largest mountain lakes in the world, Issyk-Kul, which never freezes.

Shakiev N.T., Primov U.B. · Public domain

Definitions of kyrgyzstan

  1. 1nounkyrgyzstanMountainous Central Asian country of nomads and yurts.C1

    “Kyrgyzstan still moves herds up to high pasture every summer.”

kyrgyzstan is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. ky

    Кыргызстан

  2. English

    Kyrgyzstan

  3. English, today

    kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan comes from ky Кыргызстан, from кыргыз + -стан. Equivalent to Kyrgyz + -stan. More at Kyrgyz.

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