/too ray"nee euhn, tyoo-/ , adj.
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.
n.
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.
[ 1770-80;
Turan Turkestan + -IAN ]