turanian
/too-rey-nee-uhn, tyoo-/US // tʊˈreɪ ni ən, tyʊ- //UK // (tjʊˈreɪnɪən) //
土拉尼亚人,土耳其人,土拉尼亚,土拉尼亚人
Definitions
adj.形容词 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.
- : Ural-Altaic.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a member of any of the peoples speaking a Turanian, especially a Ural-Altaic, language.
- : a member of any of the Ural-Altaic peoples.
Examples
It created the Turanian and Ganownian systems of consanguinity.
The sense of decorum impels certain Turanian tribes to place not only food, but even napkins, on the graves of their relatives.
Here and there, amid the old Slav, are strange words which are supposed to signify Turanian chronology, cycles of lunar years.
Kissing is not forbidden at all;—there is simply no impulse to kiss among the Turanian races.
Hence this barley should be one of the forms cultivated by Semitic and Turanian peoples.
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