تیمور

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• تمور (tömür)

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]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 267
• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “تیمور”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[2], Michigan Publishing, page 75

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

تیمور • (demir)

1. Alternative spelling of دمیر

References

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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai تیمور (temür, literally “iron”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [teː.ˈmuːɾ], [taj.ˈmuːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰeː.múːɾ], [t̪ʰäj.múːɾ]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ej.múːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰe.múɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	tēmūr, taymūr
Dari reading?	tēmūr, taymūr
Iranian reading?	teymur
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