Turanian

American  

[too-ray-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

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Example Sentences

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Turanian

These documents carry us back to a time when the Turanian religions had not yet been separated from the Semitic.

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

Before entering upon it, I propose to devote one chapter to the answers to three questions which concern the whole doctrine of revealed religion, whether Semitic, Turanian, or Aryan.

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

Their connection with the ancient Semitic and Turanian revelations of Asia is unquestionable.

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

Turanian, that order of languages known as monosyllabic.

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

Here the Turanian and the Malayan systems agree.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

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