- Turanian
- Turanian Tu*ra"ni*an, n. One of the Turanians. [1913 Webster]
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turanian — turanián s. m., adj. m., pl. turaniéni; f. sg. turaniánă, pl. turaniéne Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic TURANIÁN, Ă adj., s. m … Dicționar Român
Turanian — Tu*ra ni*an, a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom sprang the races of mankind.] Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Turanian — noun Etymology: Persian Tūrān Turkestan, the region north of the Amu Darya Date: circa 1777 1. a member of any of various peoples speaking Ural Altaic languages 2. Ural Altaic • Turanian adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
Turanian — /too ray nee euhn, tyoo /, adj. 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. n. 3. a member of any of the peoples speaking a… … Universalium
Turanian — /tjuˈreɪniən/ (say tyooh rayneeuhn) adjective 1. belonging or relating to a group of Asian peoples or languages comprising all or nearly all those which are neither Indo European nor Semitic. 2. Obsolete Ural Altaic. –noun 3. a member of any of… …
Turanian Society — ( tr. Turan cemiyeti, tt. Turan cämğiäte, hu. Turáni Társaság), a society founded in 1839 by Tatars, aiming at uniting the various Turkic peoples of the Russian empire.The name is derived from Turan, an ancient Persian name for the land to the… … Wikipedia
Turanian Tribes — Turanians or Turanian tribes is a term that has been used in references to diverse groups of people. Some of the references have become obsolete in modern scholarship. The term Turanian tribes may refer to or may have referred to at one time: *an … Wikipedia
Turanian — [tjʊ reɪnɪən] adjective dated relating to or denoting the languages of central Asia, particularly those of the Uralic and Altaic families, or the peoples that speak them. Origin C18: from Pers. Tūrān, the region beyond the Oxus, + ian … English new terms dictionary
turanian — tu·ra·ni·an … English syllables
turanian — n. & adj. n. the group of Asian languages that are neither Semitic nor Indo European, esp. the Ural Altaic family. adj. of or relating to this group. Etymology: Pers. Turan region beyond the Oxus … Useful english dictionary
