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Tooran

Tooran is the alternative spelling of Turan.

Meaning of Turan

Proper noun (1)

Turan

  1. (historical) A region of Central Asia, originally populated by Iranian Central Asian nomads; later, Iranians came to identify Turkic neighbours as Turanians.
    • 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
  2. A surname from Turkish.

Proper noun (2)

Turan

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

See all 4 meanings of Turan

Questions about Tooran

What is Tooran the alternative spelling of?
Tooran is the alternative spelling of Turan.

Words near Tooran in the dictionary

  1. Toora North
  2. Tooradin
  3. Toorak
  4. tooral looral
  5. tooraloo
  6. Tooran
  7. Tooranian
  8. Tooranie
  9. Tooraweenah
  10. Toorbal
  11. toorie bunnets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tooran (page history and authors); Turan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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