Turan

• Tooran, Touran (archaic)

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

Turan

2. (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.

3. A surname from Turkish.

• 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.

Turan pl (plural only)

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

See tyrant

Turan

1. The Etruscan goddess of love, fertility, and vitality.

Turan (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Rutan, arnut, run at, tanru, untar

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

Turan

1. (Romania) "Turan", a region across Central Asia from Persian legend

• Duran

• Murat, Taner (2011), “Turan”, in Dicționar tătar crimean – român / Kîrîm Tatarşa – Kazakşa Sózlík [Crimean Tatar – Romanian dictionary]‎^[1], Charleston: CreateSpace, page 436b

• IPA^(key): /turan/, [ˈturan]
• Rhymes: -uran
• Hyphenation: Tu‧ran

Turan m pers (female equivalent Turanová)

1. a male surname

• “Turan”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

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

Turan

1. a male given name
2. a surname