توران
Persian edit
Etymology edit
"Son of Tur," whose name is of uncertain origin; possibly from تور (“brave”). The name is attested in the Avesta as 𐬙𐬏𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (tūiriia), drawing comparisons to Sanskrit तुरीय (turīya, “fourth”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [tuː.ɾɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰuː.ɹɒːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰu.ɾɔn]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | tūrān |
Dari reading? | tūrān |
Iranian reading? | turân |
Tajik reading? | turon |
Proper noun edit
Dari | توران |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | Турон |
توران • (turân)
Derived terms edit
- تورانی (turâni, “Turanian”)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Brill (1993): First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936, p. 879
- “Turk”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo, Sūryanātha Kāmat (1993): The Aryan Problem: Papers Presented at the Seminar on the Aryan Problem Held at Bangalore in July 1991, p. 93
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian توران (tūrān, “Turan”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪uː.ɾɑːn/
Noun edit
توران • (tūrān) ?
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “توران”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “توران”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “توران”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- “توران”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.