𐰊𐱄𐰆𐰻

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bagatur, itself of uncertain origins. Cognate with Bashkir батыр (batır), Kazakh батыр (batyr), Turkish Batur. Compare also Proto-Mongolic *baxatur whence Mongolian баатар (baatar), Persian بهادر (bahâdor) whence Turkish bahadır and Middle Chinese 冒頓 (MC mawH|mok twonH).

Noun

𐰊𐱄𐰆𐰻 (batur)

1. (Yenisei Kyrgyz) hero, warrior
   • 8-10th CE, Altın-Köl (e-28)

     𐰼𐰓𐰢:𐰊𐰟𐰽𐰻:𐰢𐰆𐰣𐰎:𐰼𐰢𐰕:𐰢𐰆𐰣𐰎:𐰼𐰾𐰢:𐰕𐰼𐰈:𐰟𐰵𐰣𐰯:𐰼𐰓𐰢𐰠𐰐:𐰊𐱄𐰆𐰻:𐰢𐰥

     erdem:bulsar:munïɣ:ermez:munïɣ:ersem:ezerü:alqanïp:erdemlig:batur:men

     When there is valor, there is no sorrow, and when there is sorrow, then I am the hero Ezeru

2. a male given name

References

• Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰉𐱃𐰆𐰺”, in TÜRIK BITIG, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bağa:tu:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 313
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bAgatur”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill