a member of any of the peoples inhabiting ancient Turkestan, or their descendants
2. another name for Ural-Altaic
adjective
3.
of or relating to the Ural-Altaic languages or any of the peoples who speak them
4.
of or relating to Turkestan or its people
Turanian in American English
(tuˈreiniən, tju-)
adjective
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
noun
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
Word origin
[1770–80; ‹ Pers Tūrān Turkestan + -ian]This word is first recorded in the period 1770–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crescendo, embed, international, shotgun, taboo-ian is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Italian) or persons (Flavian), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (Washingtonian), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc. (Episcopalian; pedestrian). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Victorian) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; theologian)