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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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-- The term Turanian is very loosely applied by the historian to many and widely separated families and peoples.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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