Etymology

bogatyr

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Today it means: A medieval heroic warrior in Kievan Rus, akin to the Western European knight-errant. Full definition →

Russian богаты́рь ← Old East Slavic богатꙑрь ← Turkic
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The story

  1. Proto-Turkic · derived from*bagatur“hero”
  2. Old Turkic · derived from[script needed]“hero”
  3. Turkic · derived from
  4. Old East Slavic · derived fromбогатꙑрь
  5. Russian · borrowed fromбогаты́рь
  6. English todaybogatyr

Borrowed from Russian богаты́рь (bogatýrʹ), Old East Slavic богатꙑрь (bogatyrĭ), from a Turkic language, probably Khazar, from Old Turkic [script needed] (baɣatur, “hero”), from Proto-Turkic *bagatur (“hero”). Cognates include Turkish bahadır, Tatar баһадир (bahadir), Chuvash паттӑр (pattăr), Kyrgyz баатыр (baatır), Tuvan маатыр (maatır), Yakut баатыр (baatïr), Turkmen batyr, Middle Turkic baɣatur. Doublet of bahadur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.