تیمور

تیمور

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

تیمور • (demir)

1. Alternative spelling of دمیر‎

References

• https://books.google.com/books?id=BpVFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA267

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Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /teːˈmuːɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /teːˈmuːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /tiːˈmuːɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /teˈmuɾ/

Proper noun

Dari	تیمور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Темур (Temur)

تیمور • (timur)

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

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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