Meaning of Turan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A region of Central Asia, originally populated by Iranian Central Asian nomads; later, Iranians came to identify Turkic neighbours as Turanians.
   historical
2. A nomadic people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
   plural, plural-only
3. A surname from Turkish.

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Examples

“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.”

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