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

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

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

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

The climate of the Turanian Highland does not admit of a nomadic life without a supply of stock feed for the long and hard winter.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich

The earliest Assyrian monuments would seem to belong to a Turanian race, of which comparatively little is known, but which may correspond with the primitive Cushites of Biblical story.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William