تیمور
Chagatai
Alternative forms
- تمور (tömür)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *temür.
Noun
تیمور • (temür) (plural تیمورلار (temür-lär))
Declension
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Derived terms
- تیمور باش (temür baš, “peg”)
- تیمور تکی (tymwr tky)
- 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”)
Related terms
- تیموچین (temüčin)
Proper noun
تیمور • (temür)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Timur
- 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
- Turkish: Timur
- → 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)
- alternative spelling of دمیر
References
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Chagatai تیمور (temür, literally “iron”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /teː.ˈmuːr/, /taj.ˈmuːr/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰeː.múːɾ], [t̪ʰäj.múːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰej.múːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰe.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)
- Timur; Tamerlane (fourteenth-century conqueror)
- 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)
- a male given name, Taimur or Taimoor, meaning “strong, steel”
- name of king