Etymology

Tamerlane

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Today it means: a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia Full definition →

Persian تیمور لنگ ← Proto-Turkic *temür
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The story

  1. Proto-Turkic · derived from*temür“iron”
  2. Persian · derived fromتیمور لنگ
  3. English todayTamerlane

From Persian تیمور لنگ (teymur-(e) lang, literally “Timur the Lame”). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”). See Turkish demir for more information.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Turkic*temür all →

timur

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.