Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Ural-Altaic languages or to the peoples who speak them.
- noun A member of any of the peoples who speak languages of the Ural-Altaic group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word loosely and indefinitely used to designate a family of languages, sometimes applied to the Asiatic languages in general outside of the Indo-European and Semitic families, and so including various discordant and independent families, but sometimes used especially or restrictedly of the Ural-Altaic or Scythian family.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun One of the Turanians.
- Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also
Altaic ,Ural-Altaic , andScythian ), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and in Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Turan . - noun One of an extensive division of
mankind , including theMongols and allied races ofAsia , together with theMalays andPolynesians .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-- The term Turanian is very loosely applied by the historian to many and widely separated families and peoples.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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Most beds would have collapsed beneath Conan's considerable weight alone, but the beds in Turanian brothels were build to stand heavy usage, as well they should.
Archive 2010-02-01 Cromsblood 2010
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Most beds would have collapsed beneath Conan's considerable weight alone, but the beds in Turanian brothels were build to stand heavy usage, as well they should.
More Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2010
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'Turanian' - the significance of which is co-extensive with the scriptural, 'Japhetic' ...
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Hungarian, Finnish, the Turkic languages, Mongolian, and Manchu belong to the Ural-Altaic family of languages, also known as the Turanian family, after the Persian word Turan for Turkestan.
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But he held in leash a vast confederacy of nations -- Teutonic, Sclavonic, and what we now call Turanian, -- whose territories stretched from the Rhine to the Caucasus, and he is said to have made "the isles of the Ocean", which expression probably denotes the islands and peninsulas of
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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Anu, one of the four sons of Yayâti, is the North, not the Iranian, nor the Turanian, which is Turvasa, but the Semitic, _i. e.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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The type of race so often, called in manuals of ethnology 'Mongolian', let us designate by the term 'Turanian' - the significance of which is co-extensive with the scriptural, 'Japhetic' ...
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Bulgarians that both these peoples proclaimed their "Turanian" origins and toyed with ideas of "Pan-Turanian" solidarity against the menace of
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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He is not only faithful to the truth in large things, he is accurate in small matters also; and where he makes use of any statement he always shows that there is justification for it; although, by the way, I can only guess at his reason for calling Attila a "Turanian" a word which carries a pleasant flavor of pre-Victorian ethnology, and might just about as appropriately be applied to Tecumseh.
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