1. Hurrian - Noun
2. Hurrian - Adjective
3. Hurrian - Proper noun
Hurrian (plural Hurrians)
(historical) A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.
Hurrian (comparative more Hurrian, superlative most Hurrian)
Of or pertaining to the Hurrians or their language or culture.
Hurrian
The language of Hurrians, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, whose only known relative is the Urartian.
A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit: The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music. Source: Internet
Despite the conjectural nature of reconstructions of the piece known as the Hurrian songs from the surviving score, the evidence that it used the diatonic scale is much more soundly based. Source: Internet
Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class that governed a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Kassite Babylon created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. Source: Internet
Among these fragments are found the names of four Hurrian composers, Tapšiẖuni, Puẖiya(na), Urẖiya, and Ammiya. Source: Internet
As noted above, important discoveries of Hurrian culture and history were also made at Alalakh, Amarna, Hattusa and Ugarit. Source: Internet
Following this, it found itself under short periods of Babylonian and Mitanni Hurrian rule in the 18th and 15th centuries BC respectively. Source: Internet