Chagatai

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *temür.

Noun

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تیمور (temür)

  1. iron

Descendants

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  • Uyghur: تۆمۈر (tömür)
  • Uzbek: temir

References

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  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تیمور”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 267
  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “تیمور”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources[2], Michigan Publishing, page 75

Ottoman Turkish

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Noun

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تیمور (demir)

  1. Alternative spelling of دمیر

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Chagatai تیمور (temür, literally iron).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? tēmūr
Dari reading? tēmūr
Iranian reading? timur
Tajik reading? temur

Proper noun

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Dari تیمور
Iranian Persian
Tajik Темур

تیمور (timur)

  1. Timur; Tamerlane (fourteenth-century conqueror)
  2. a male given name from Chagatai

Urdu

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Etymology

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Either through Classical Persian تَیمور (taymur) or directly from Chagatai تیمور (temür, literally iron) by way of the Chagatai heritage of the Mughal Empire elite.

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (iron).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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تَیمُور (taimūrm (Hindi spelling तैमूर)

  1. a male given name, Taimur or Taimoor, meaning “strong, steel
  2. name of king