Turanian
Americanadjective
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belonging or pertaining to a group of Asian peoples or languages comprising nearly all of those that are neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
noun
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a member of any of the peoples speaking a Turanian, especially a Ural-Altaic, language.
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a member of any of the Ural-Altaic peoples.
noun
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a member of any of the peoples inhabiting ancient Turkestan, or their descendants
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another name for Ural-Altaic
adjective
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of or relating to the Ural-Altaic languages or any of the peoples who speak them
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of or relating to Turkestan or its people
Etymology
Origin of Turanian
1770–80; < Persian Tūrān Turkestan + -ian
Example Sentences
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The first of their rulers mentioned in history is Samo, who is stated to have defeated the Avars, a Turanian tribe which had for a time obtained the overlordship over Bohemia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
The inhabitants of the little known regions now variously known as Jungaria and Eastern Turkestan were, until recent years, considered to be of pure Tartar origin, and consequently members of the Turanian family.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
If the speaker be a female, using the Turanian style, these terms are reversed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
It was owing to the pressure of Turanian invaders from the East that the Teutonic peoples were first forced to take refuge within the empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
Turanian, that order of languages known as monosyllabic.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
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