Definition of Turanian. Meaning of Turanian. Synonyms of Turanian

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Definition of Turanian

Turanian
Turanian Tu*ra"ni*an, n. One of the Turanians.
Turanian
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 also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.

Meaning of Turanian from wikipedia

- Turanian is a term that has been used in reference to diverse groups of people. Many of the uses of the word are obsolete. It may refer to: An Iranic ethnic...
- Turanian is an obsolete language-family proposal subsuming most of the languages of Eurasia not included in Indo-European, Semitic and Chinese. During...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Turanism, also known as Turanianism, pan-Turanism or pan-Turanianism, is a pan-nationalist political movement built around...
- settlement, a historic geographical region, or a culture. The original Turanians were an Iranian tribe of the Avestan age. In ancient Iranian mythology...
- and Bengal tigers. It was also called Balkhash tiger, Hyrcanian tiger, Turanian tiger, and Mazandaran tiger. Felis virgata was a scientific name used by...
- The Turanian Society (Turkish: Turan Cemiyeti, Tatar: Turan Cämğiäte, Hungarian: Turáni Társaság) was a society founded in 1839 by Tatars with the goal...
- The Turan Depression, Turan Lowland or Turanian Basin is a low-lying desert basin region stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan...
- were posed by the policies of the great powers of Europe. The idea of a "Turanian brotherhood and collaboration" was borrowed from the Pan-Slavic concept...
- The Irano-Turanian Region is a floristic region located within the Tethyan Subkingdom of the Holarctic Kingdom. It is divided into 12 floristic provinces...
- disliking the resulting racist Aryanism; and he promoted the idea of a "Turanian" family of languages. Among his honours and distinctions, he was made an...