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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. 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. 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.