单词 | turanian |
释义 | Turaniann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of any of the races speaking the ‘Turanian’ or Ural-Altaic languages: see B. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Ural-Altaic > [noun] Tartarc1386 Turanian1777 Ugrian1841 1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. Dissert. p. xxx/2 The Tartars, Scythians, or Turanians. 1854 C. C. J. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind IV. 26 The native religion of the Turanian is Shamanism. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. i. v. 32 Turanians: Physiognomy: Mongol. Language: Agglutinate. Area: Mongolia, Mantshuria. 1888 G. Smith Stephen Hislop (1889) vii. 182 Brahmanism assimilated to itself the cults of the Turanians and Sudras. 2. The so-called Turanian languages collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [noun] > Ural-Altaic Ural-Altaic1853 Turanian1865 1865 F. W. Farrar Chapters on Lang. 29 Various sporadic families, which some would call Turanian. 1908 Christian Express 1 Apr. 59/1 He states that in Bantu, as in Turanian (by-the-bye, we would be thankful to know what is Turanian) there is a regular phonetic interchange k = p = b = f = d! B. adj. 1. Applied loosely to a group or supposed ‘family’ of languages, originally applied to all or nearly all of Asiatic origin that are neither Aryan nor Semitic; in later use nearly = Ural-Altaic adj. at Ural n.1 b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [adjective] > Ural-Altaic Turanian1789 Allophylian1841 Ural-Altaic1853 Uralo-Altaic1867 1789 Asiatick Researches 1 7 A Turanian pronunciation. 1841 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. i. 16 A great number of roots are thus to be traced in several of the Turanian languages. 1854 C. C. J. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind VI. 64 All the languages of Asia and Europe which are neither Semitic nor Arian. I ventured in 1847 to write all these under the name Turanian. 1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. 199 Languages which belong to neither of these two..families have been classed together under the name of the Turanian, Nomadic, or Allophylian family. 1892 Whitney Max Müller 49 The old ‘Turanian’ aggregation, which..has for a generation been a stumbling-block in the way of science. 2. Applied to the peoples speaking these languages. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Ural-Altaic > [adjective] Votyak1770 Turanian1836 Ugrian1838 Ugric1854 1836 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) I. iv. 267 The skulls of the Esquimaux..bring them into the same class of human races with the Kalmuk and other Turanian nations. 1859 F. M. Müller Sci. Lang. (1861) I. 276 The name Turanian is used in opposition to Aryan and is applied to the nomadic races of Asia as opposed to the agricultural or Aryan races. 1874 G. Bancroft Footpr. of Time i. 30 Turanian means ‘outside’, or ‘barbarian’. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (1913) I. iv. 179 The Magyars belong to the great Turanian family of mankind. Derivatives Tuˈranianism n. the principle of uniting speakers of Turanian or Ural-Altaic languages (esp. Turkish); cf. pan-Turanianism n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Ural-Altaic > [noun] > specific principle Turanianism1922 1922 19th Cent. Nov. 835 The seeming paradox of the Bolshevist régime cementing Islamism and Turanianism in a widespread brotherhood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.adj.1777 |
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