Ugrian

[ oo-gree-uhn, yoo- ]

adjective
  1. denoting or pertaining to an ethnological group including the Magyars and related peoples of western Siberia.

noun
  1. a member of any of the Ugrian peoples.

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How to use Ugrian in a sentence

  • We must expect to find things just a little more Ugrian than aught else.

    Opuscula | Robert Gordon Latham
  • If this were not the case, then was the name native, and the Roxolani were Ugrian.

    Opuscula | Robert Gordon Latham
  • The inferences from all this are enormous extension and subsequent displacement of the Ugrian family.

    The Ethnology of Europe | Robert Gordon Latham
  • The eastern part of Minsk, on the strength of the word Narym is considered to have been Ugrian.

    The Ethnology of Europe | Robert Gordon Latham
  • North and east of Tambov the original Ugrian population is no longer a matter of inference.

    The Ethnology of Europe | Robert Gordon Latham

British Dictionary definitions for Ugrian

Ugrian

/ (ˈuːɡrɪən, ˈjuː-) /


adjective
  1. of or relating to a light-haired subdivision of the Turanian people, who include the Samoyeds, Voguls, Ostyaks, and Magyars

noun
  1. a member of this group of peoples

  2. another word for Ugric

Origin of Ugrian

1
C19: from Old Russian Ugre Hungarians

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