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(historical) A region of Central Asia, originally populated by Iranian Central Asian nomads; later, Iranians came to identify Turkic neighbours as Turanians. quotations
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.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25
Any of the languages of these people. examples
A surname from Turkish. examples
plural only
A nomadic people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. examples