Turanian definition

to͝o-rānē-ən, -rä-, tyo͝o-
Of or relating to the Ural-Altaic languages or to the peoples who speak them.
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A member of any of the peoples who speak languages of the Ural-Altaic group.
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Noun

Singular:
turanian
Plural:
turanians

Origin of turanian

  • From Persian Tūrān , Turkistan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Turanian Sentence Examples

  • The Parthians appear to have been a Turanian tribe who had adopted many Persian customs. They successfully withstood the Romans, and at one time their power extended from India to Syria.

  • Although for nearly a thousand years established in Europe and subjected to Aryan influences, the Magyar has yet retained its essential Ural-Altaic or Turanian features.

  • It is hard to say whether the Yue-Chi should be included in any of the recognized divisions of Turanian tribes such as Turks or Huns.

  • At the end of the 7th century the Bulgars, a Turanian race, crossed the Danube and subjected the Slavonic inhabitants of Moesia and Thrace, but were soon assimilated by the conquered population, which had already become partly civilized.

  • As there can be scarcely any doubt that it was in these regions, where the fertile soil of the mountainous country is everywhere surrounded and limited by the Turanian desert, that the prophet Zoroaster preached and gained his first adherents, and that his religion spread from here over the western parts of Iran, the sacred language in which the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism, is written, has often been called "old Bactrian."

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