Turan

See also: turan, Turán, tūrán, and túrán

English

Turan on one 1850s map.

Etymology

From Classical Persian توران (tūrān), originally meaning "the Land of Tur".

Proper noun

Turan

1. (historical) A region of Central Asia, originally populated by Iranian Central Asian nomads; later, Iranians came to identify Turkic neighbours as Turanians.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25:

     Light was happiness; and the people of Iran, the land of light, were the favourites of heaven; while those of Turan, the gloomy region beyond the mountains to the north, were its enemies.

2. Any of the languages of these people.
3. A surname from Turkish.

Derived terms

• Turan tiger

Translations

region in Central Asia

• Bengali: তুরান (turan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖蘭／图兰 (Túlán)

• Hindi: तूरान (hi) m (tūrān)
• Hungarian: Turán
• Ottoman Turkish: توران (Turan)
• Persian: توران (fa)
• Russian: Туран (ru) (Turan)
• Tajik: Турон (Turon)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Turan is the 33856^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 672 individuals. Turan is most common among White (91.96%) individuals.

Noun

Turan pl (plural only)

1. A nomadic people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.

Anagrams

• Rutan, arnut, run at, tanru, untar

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish توران (Turan), from Old Turkic 𐱄𐰆𐰺𐰣 (t¹ur¹n¹ /⁠turan⁠/).

Proper noun

Turan

1. a male given name
2. a surname