单词 | kyrgyz |
释义 | Kyrgyzn.adj. A. n. A widespread Mongolian people of west central Asia, now chiefly inhabiting the Kyrgyz Republic; a member of this people; their Turkic language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Mongol peoples of Central Asia > [noun] Kyrgyz1652 aimag1839 Khalkha1873 Kara-Kirghiz1879 Torgut1883 the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [noun] > Turkic > specific Turkic languages Uzbek1616 Uighur1843 Yarkand1875 Nogai1886 Kyrgyz1908 Yakut1908 Taranchi1911 Kazakh1918 Tchambuli1935 Kumyk1970 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Qqq5v These again subdivided into severall Tribes, which they call their Hordes, of which the most considerable are, 1. the Nagaian Tartars, 2. the Zavolhenses, 3. the Thumenenses, 4. the Kirgessi. 1837 T. De Quincey in Blackwood's Mag. July 109/2 The murderous attacks of their cruel enemies the Bashkirs and the Kirghises. 1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 134 Kirghiz, comprising the speeches of the Black Kirghiz (or Buruts) in the part of Turkestan bordering on China, and of the Cossack Kirghiz to the north of the Caspian, the sea of Aral and Lake Balkash. 1921 19th Cent. & After May 871 Kirghizes, Lesghiens, Mingrelians. 1932 R. John tr. Popoff City of Red Plague iii. 46 One could not help being struck by the large number of Mongolian types—torn by their Muscovite masters from the remote steppes and forests of Siberia and Asiatic Russia;..Kalmucks, Kirghiz, Yakuts, and similar obscure, semi-barbaric tribes. 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans vii. 212 Ethnologists use the word [sc. Turki] loosely and in several different senses:—..(b) To designate a certain ethnic group of which the Turks, the Kirghis and the Tatars are best known. 1955 V. Cronin Wise Man from West xiii. 243 In this country of chasms and precipices roamed the Kirghiz, a predatory tribe. 1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. viii. 177 A palatalisation of syllables..occurs in most of the Turco-Tartar languages of..Kirghiz, Turkmenian, etc. 1967 D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 73 Kirgiz.., apparently one of the oldest (or oldest attested) Turkic tribes. B. adj. Of or relating to the Kyrgyz; spec. Kyrgyz pheasant n. = Mongolian pheasant n. at Mongolian adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus colchicus (pheasant) pheasantc1299 ring pheasant1777 swish-tail1796 ring-neck1825 Colchian pheasant1862 Mongolian pheasant1903 Mongolian1909 Kyrgyz pheasant1922 1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. 326 The Kirghiz women adorn their plaits with beads, shells, and copper buttons. 1922 C. W. Beebe Monogr. Pheasants III. 96 On the south-east the enormous Tian-Shan serve as the boundary between the Kirghiz Pheasant and both shawi and tarimensis. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 256/1 The Russians, who were conscripting young Khirgese men for use on the railway. 1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets x. 226 Kirghiz rugs..are country-bred, vigorous and coarse. 1963 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles XII. 338 The Kirghiz pheasant Phasianus mongolicus Brandt. Commonly (but incorrectly) named the Mongolian pheasant, is distinguished by the broad white-ring around the neck interrupted in front, having the mantle, chest and breast bronzy orange-red... Introduced into England for Lord Rothschild in 1900. 1971 Whitaker's Almanack 966 The Kirghiz S.S.R. occupies the north-eastern part of Soviet central Asia and borders in the south-east on China. Derivatives Kyrˈgyzian adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Mongol peoples of Central Asia > [adjective] Mogul1617 Mongolian1706 Mogulish1719 Khalkha1876 Kyrgyzian1888 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 661/2 Tatar dialects (Kirghizian, Bashkiri, Nogai). 1922 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 342 The Kirgisian population has retained its nomadic habits. 1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon i. 12 A dashing White Russian officer..spoke frequently of the Kirghesian sheep that drag their fat-containing tails behind them on little sleighs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1652 |
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