Etymology

Baybars

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Today it means: a mameluke sultan of Egypt of the 13th century Full definition →

Proto-Turkic *bāy
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The story

  1. Proto-Turkic · derived from*bāy“rich, noble”
  2. English todayBaybars

Possibly from the Mamluk-Kipchak descendant of the compound of Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble”) and *bars (“leopard, large feline”).

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