Where does “Timur” come from?

Timur (English) comes from Turkish Timur, from Persian تیمور, from Proto-Turkic temür — iron.

Timur (English): rattan pepper

Definitions

  1. rattan pepper

Ancestry of “Timur”, step by step

Timur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish Timur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishTimur—
2PersianتیمورTimur; Tamerlane (fourteenth-century conqueror)
3Proto-Turkictemüriron

via Nepali तिमुर

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Nepaliतिमुर—

Words derived from “Timur”

Every word from Proto-Turkic temür →Every word from Persian تیمور →Every word from Turkish Timur →