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View Name: Timur


TIMUR
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: History, Russian
OTHER SCRIPTS: Тимур (Russian)
PRONOUNCED: tee-MOOR (Russian)   [key]
Meaning & History
From the Turkic name Temür meaning "iron". Timur, also known as Tamerlane (from Persian تیمور لنگ (Timur e Lang) meaning "Timur the lame"), was a 14th-century Turkic leader who conquered large areas of Western Asia.
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VARIANT: Timour (History)
OTHER LANGUAGES: Temir (Kazakh), Temür (Medieval Turkic)
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