تیمور

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *temür.

Noun

تیمور (temür)

  1. iron

Descendants
  • Uyghur: تۆمۈر (tömür)
  • Uzbek: temir

References
  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تیمور”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 267
  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “تیمور”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎, Michigan Publishing, page 75

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

تیمور • (demir)

  1. Alternative spelling of دمیر

References

Persian

Etymology

From Chagatai تیمور (temür, literally “iron”).

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

Readings
Classical reading? tēmūr
Dari reading? tēmūr
Iranian reading? timur
Tajik reading? temur

Proper noun
Dari تیمور
Iranian Persian
Tajik Темур

تیمور • (timur)

  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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