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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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
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 Dawson, John William
Again, “the change of relationships which resulted from substituting Punaluan in the place of Consanguine marriage turns the Malayan into the Turanian system.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
But Morgan provides himself with another explanation, “the Turanian system owes its origin to marriage in the group and to the gentile organization.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The Huns, a people of Turanian stock, were closely related to the ancestors of the Magyars, or the modern Hungarians.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
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