bogatyr

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 (baatır), Turkmen batyr, Middle Turkic baɣatur. Doublet of bahadur.

• IPA^(key): /ˌboʊɡəˈtɪɚ/

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Three famous Russian bogatyrs - Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets and Alyosha Popovich

bogatyr (plural bogatyrs or bogatyri)

1. (historical) A medieval heroic warrior in Kievan Rus, akin to the Western European knight-errant.
   • 1998, James Bailey, Tatyana Ivanova (translators and editors), An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics‎, page 17:

     There was no answer from the bogatyr.
     Ilya shouted even louder than before,
     Louder than before, in a shrill voice—
     There was no answer from the bogatyr.

   • 2011, Rosamund Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life‎, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 2:

     Later on, he^[Tolstoy] was equated with Ilya Muromets, the most famous Russian bogatyr - a semi-mythical medieval warrior who lay at home on the brick stove until he was thirty-three - then went on to perform great feats defending the realm. Ilya Muromets is Russia's traditional symbol of physical and spiritual strength.

   • 2011, Konstantin M Averin, Tatiana I Pavlova, To Be Or Not to Be Russian?‎, page 31:

     Some variants of the tale say that all the bogatyrs perished in the battle except Ilya of Murom, who, however, died after coming back as a winner.

• bahadur
• Ulaanbaatar

• Kievan Rus

• Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), Moscow, 1974–
• A Study of the Proto-Turkic tor 'general', by Choi Han-Woo, Handong University, Korea. In: International Journal of Central Asian Studies, Volume 10-1, 2005, p.220. ISSN 1226-4490.

From a Turkic language, probably Khazar. See bogatyr for more.

bogatyr m (plural bogatyrs)

1. bogatyr

• bogatir

bogatyr m (plural bogatyres)

1. bogatyr (medieval Russian heroic warrior)