Turanian

American  

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

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

Here the Turanian and the Malayan systems agree.

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

Arejataçpa, now Arjasp, the Turanian, sacrifices in the Avesta in order to obtain victory over Vistaçpa, and the great equestrian, Zairivairi, the brother of Vistaçpa.

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

Four pillars of the chief hall bear the same inscription in cuneiform letters, and, as always, in the Persian, Babylonian, and Turanian languages.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max

Av�ars, a nation, probably of Turanian origin, who at an early period may have migrated from the region east of the Tobol in Siberia to that about the Don, the Caspian Sea, and the Volga.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

Turanian, that order of languages known as monosyllabic.

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