Tartarian

From Tartar +‎ -ian.

Tartarian (plural Tartarians)

1. (now rare) A Tartar.
2. (now rare) The language of the Tartars; Tatar.
   • 1577, John Dee, Perfect Arte of Navigation:

     Two, or Three Honest Men […] should be Skilfull in Far-Forreyn-Languages: As, in the Sclauonian, or Moschouite, the Arabik Vulgar, the Turkish, the Tartarien, the Chiny Language, the Canadien, and the Islandish, &c.

3. (dated) Any of various varieties of cherry. The Black Tartarian is a sweet cherry from Russia; the White Tartarian is a French variety of the early 1800s.

Tartarian (comparative more Tartarian, superlative most Tartarian)

1. Of or relating to Tartary or the Tartars; Tartaric.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     Then hauing paſt Armenian deſerts now,
     And pitcht our tents vnder the Georgean hills,
     Whoſe tops are couered with Tartarian theeues,
     That lie in ambuſh, waiting for a pray:
     What ſhould we doe but bid them battel ſtraight,
     And rid the world of thoſe deteſted troopes?

• Tartarian lamb

Tartarian aster (Aster tataricus)

• Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)

From Tartar(us) +‎ -ian.

Tartarian (comparative more Tartarian, superlative most Tartarian)

1. Pertaining to Tartarus; hellish, infernal.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 153:

     (Sulphur Bottom).—Another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings.