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

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

There were jealousies and conflicts between the various states composing it and incessant incursions from those troublesome neighbors, the Magyars or Hungarians, the Turanian people on their southeast border.

From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt

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 Dawson, John William

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

It contained the germs of all the Turanian, as well as the Aryan and Semitic forms of speech.

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