Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, n.
   One of the Turanians.

Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian
   legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom
   sprang the races of mankind.]
   Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of
   languages of simple structure and low grade (called also
   {Altaic}, {Ural-Altaic}, and {Scythian}), spoken in the
   northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of
   pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these
   languages.