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Definition of Hurrian in English: Hurriannoun ˈhʌrɪənˈho͝orēən 1A member of an ancient people, originally from Armenia, who settled in Syria and northern Mesopotamia during the 3rd–2nd millennia BC and were later absorbed by the Hittites and Assyrians. （与）胡里人（有关）的（源于亚美尼亚，公元前3000-前2000年在叙利亚和美索不达米亚北部定居，后被赫梯人和亚述人同化） Example sentencesExamples - In fact, Siirt is a city of great antiquity, home to many different civilisations, beginning with the Hurrians, who were succeeded in turn by the Medes, Persians, Parthians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and finally the Ottomans.
- In the second half of the 8th century, Tiglath-Pileser III pushed his frontiers south to the Persian Gulf and north into the heart of Anatolia, defeating the Hurrians and the Hittites.
- The Hurrians (mentioned in the Bible as the Horites) had a sky god Anu (perhaps the same as the Sumerian An) who was castrated and overthrown by his son, Kumarbi.
- He wrote of the relation of the Kurdish peoples, or some of them, to the ancient Hurrians.
2mass noun The language of the Hurrians, written in cuneiform and of unknown affinity. 胡里语（楔形文字，亲缘关系不明，不属于印欧语或闪米特语） Example sentencesExamples - We know that the Middle East of 5000 years ago was using a variety of unrelated languages, Hurrian, Egyptian, Sumerian, Elamite, Hittite, and Akkadian, where for the last 1000 years there has been nothing but Arabic and Persian.
- This system developed over the succeeding centuries to form Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hititte, Hurrian, and Old Persian.
- The cosmopolitan nature of the city is evident from the presence of documents written in Ugaritic, Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian, Hurrian, and even Cypro-Minoan.
adjective ˈhʌrɪənˈho͝orēən Relating to the Hurrians or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Some of the pottery is estimated to be approximately 5,000 years old, and it has been linked to the Nuzi people of the Hurrian civilization.
- The charioteers, who bore the Hurrian title mariyannu, were an élite group given special privileges.
- To a visitor from a non-Islamic planet earth, the Hurrian political system would appear to be an exotic blend of Stalin and a militant Sweden.
- Wouldn't it shock people to find that out that Jewish beginnings were not necessarily Semitic, but Hurrian?
Definition of Hurrian in US English: Hurriannounˈho͝orēən 1A member of an ancient people, originally from Armenia, who settled in Syria and northern Mesopotamia during the 3rd–2nd millennia BC and were later absorbed by the Hittites and Assyrians. （与）胡里人（有关）的（源于亚美尼亚，公元前3000-前2000年在叙利亚和美索不达米亚北部定居，后被赫梯人和亚述人同化） Example sentencesExamples - In fact, Siirt is a city of great antiquity, home to many different civilisations, beginning with the Hurrians, who were succeeded in turn by the Medes, Persians, Parthians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and finally the Ottomans.
- He wrote of the relation of the Kurdish peoples, or some of them, to the ancient Hurrians.
- In the second half of the 8th century, Tiglath-Pileser III pushed his frontiers south to the Persian Gulf and north into the heart of Anatolia, defeating the Hurrians and the Hittites.
- The Hurrians (mentioned in the Bible as the Horites) had a sky god Anu (perhaps the same as the Sumerian An) who was castrated and overthrown by his son, Kumarbi.
2The language of the Hurrians, written in cuneiform and of unknown affinity. 胡里语（楔形文字，亲缘关系不明，不属于印欧语或闪米特语） Example sentencesExamples - This system developed over the succeeding centuries to form Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hititte, Hurrian, and Old Persian.
- We know that the Middle East of 5000 years ago was using a variety of unrelated languages, Hurrian, Egyptian, Sumerian, Elamite, Hittite, and Akkadian, where for the last 1000 years there has been nothing but Arabic and Persian.
- The cosmopolitan nature of the city is evident from the presence of documents written in Ugaritic, Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian, Hurrian, and even Cypro-Minoan.
adjectiveˈho͝orēən Relating to the Hurrians or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Some of the pottery is estimated to be approximately 5,000 years old, and it has been linked to the Nuzi people of the Hurrian civilization.
- The charioteers, who bore the Hurrian title mariyannu, were an élite group given special privileges.
- To a visitor from a non-Islamic planet earth, the Hurrian political system would appear to be an exotic blend of Stalin and a militant Sweden.
- Wouldn't it shock people to find that out that Jewish beginnings were not necessarily Semitic, but Hurrian?
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