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TIMUR

Gender: Masculine

Usage: History, Russian

Other Scripts: Тимур (Russian)

Pronounced: tee-MOOR (Russian)   [key]

From the Turkic name Temor meaning "iron". Timur, also known as Tamerlane (from Persian Timur i Leng "Timur the lame"), was a 14th-century Turkic leader who conquered large areas of western Asia.
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