Turanian

American  

[too-rey-nee-uhn, tyoo-] / tʊˈreɪ ni ən, tjʊ- /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to a group of Asian peoples or languages comprising nearly all of those that are neither Indo-European nor Semitic.

2. Ural-Altaic.

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noun

1. a member of any of the peoples speaking a Turanian, especially a Ural-Altaic, language.

2. a member of any of the Ural-Altaic peoples.

Turanian British  

/ tjʊˈreɪnɪən /

noun

1. a member of any of the peoples inhabiting ancient Turkestan, or their descendants

2. another name for Ural-Altaic

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Ural-Altaic languages or any of the peoples who speak them

2. of or relating to Turkestan or its people

Etymology

Origin of Turanian

1770–80; < Persian Tūrān Turkestan + -ian

Example Sentences

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Turanian

The destructive Turanian Franghraçyana, who is now called Afrasiab, is known to the Avesta.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker

The purpose of this war can only have been to attack the nomadic Turanian tribes in the rear and thus to secure peace on the northern frontier of the empire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

I would answer—Not precisely so; but it is quite possible that Adam may have been Turanian in feature.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson

Thus Darius subjugated the wild nations of the Pontic and Armenian mountains, and extended the Persian dominion to the Caucasus; for the same reasons he fought against the Sacae and other Turanian tribes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Turanian, that order of languages known as monosyllabic.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean