طُرْانِىٌّ

, an epithet applied to a pigeon, (O, K,) and to an event, (K,) Of which one knows not whence it has come: (K:) an irregular rel. n. from طَرَأَ عَلْيَنَا فُلَانٌ “ Such a one came forth upon us without our knowing him: ” (TA:) [or] طُرْان is the name of a certain mountain in which are many pigeons; (O, K;) and hence the epithet above mentioned as applied to a pigeon: (O, TA:) Aboo-'Obeyd El-Bekree writes this name, in the Moajam, with damm to the first letter and teshdeed to the second: the vulgar say حَمَام طُورَانِىّ, which is a mistake. (TA.)

See also طُرْانٌ.