تیمور

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *temür.

Noun

تیمور (temür) (plural تیمور‌لار (temür-lär))

  1. iron
    Synonyms: آهن (āhän), حدید (ḥädīd)

Derived terms

  • تیمور باش (temür baš, “peg”)
  • تیمور تکی
  • تیمور تیکان (temür tikän, “Centaurea calcitrapa”)
  • تیمور قازوق (temür qazuq, “Polaris, North Star”)
  • تیمور قانات (temür qanat, “a sort of duck”)
  • تیمورچی (temürči, “seller or maker of iron; blacksmith”)

Proper noun

تیمور (temür)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Timur
  2. Tamerlane, Timur; a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia

Descendants

  • Uyghur: تۆمۈر (tömür)
  • Uzbek: temir
  • → Persian: تیمور (teymur)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: تیمور
  • → Uyghur: تېمۇر (tëmur)
  • → Uzbek: Temur

References

  • 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

Noun

تیمور • (demir)

  1. alternative spelling of دمیر

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai تیمور (temür, literally “iron”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰeː.múːɾ], [t̪ʰäj.múːɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰeː.múːɾ], [t̪ʰäj.múːɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰu.múɾ], [t̪ʰäj.múɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? tēmūr, taymūr
Dari reading? tēmūr, taymūr
Iranian reading? teymur
Tajik reading? temur

Proper noun

Dari تیمور
Iranian Persian
Tajik Темур

تیمور • (teymur)

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

Urdu

Etymology

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

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ɛː.muːɾ/
  • Rhymes: -uːɾ
  • Hyphenation: تَے‧مُور

Proper noun

تَیمُور • (taimūr) m (Hindi spelling तैमूर)

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