Mongol vs Turanian - What's the difference?
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A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
(offensive) (usually mongol ) A person with Down's syndrome.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th Century. The mongol Empire stretched from the Eastern seas of China to the gates of Vienna.
* Mathew Paris Chron. Maj. iv.76ff, Translated from The journey of William Rubruck (Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no.4; 1900) pp. xv-xvi .
One of an extensive division of mankind, including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians.
Any of an extensive language family spoken in northern Europe and Asia and Central Asia; Altaic; Ural-Altaic; Scythian.
(Webster 1913)
As proper nouns the difference between mongol and turanian
is that mongol is a person from Mongolia; a Mongolian while Turanian is any of an extensive language family spoken in northern Europe and Asia and Central Asia; Altaic; Ural-Altaic; Scythian.As an adjective Turanian is
of or pertaining to Turan.As a noun Turanian is
one of an extensive division of mankind, including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians.mongol
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
- They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron short, stout, thickset, strong, invincible, indefatigable, their backs unprotected, their breasts covered with armour...They have one-edged swords and daggers and spare neither age, nor sex nor condition.