Kirghiz en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kɪɹˈɡiːz/ (US)
- /ˈkɜːɡɪz/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian кирги́з (kirgíz).
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
alt of Kyrgyz
In September of 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Pa-ch'u, dividing Ma Hu-shan's 36th Corps into two sections. In October one Kirghiz regiment entered P'i-shan, and Ma Hu-shan fled to India. Kirghiz and Russian forces were now in occupation of Hami and poised to strike at Ho-t'ien in the extreme south of Sinkiang.
1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 102–103: