Turanian

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 Turanian, esp. a Ural-Altaic, language.
4. a member of any of the Ural-Altaic peoples.
[1770-80; < Pers Turan Turkestan + -IAN]

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