“Thank you” in Kyrgyz is рахмат — rahmat. For a stronger thanks say чоң рахмат, “thank you very much” (чоң means “big”). The language is also called Kirghiz or Kirgiz in older sources — the word is the same.
Stress falls on the last syllable: rah-MAT. The “r” is a hard tap, the “h” is a soft throat sound rather than a hard “k”. The word is of Arabic origin, familiar from Turkish rahmet, but in Kyrgyz it is the everyday word for thanks.
Эчтеке эмес (echteke emes) — “it's nothing, you're welcome”. It works in both casual and formal situations.
Чоң рахмат! (chong rahmat) — literally “big thanks”. Сизге рахмат! means “thank you” addressed politely to you.
They are close but not identical: Kazakh uses рақмет (raqmet), Kyrgyz uses рахмат. Speakers of either understand both.
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