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Where does “Timur” come from?
Timur (Turkish) comes from Persian تیمور, from Proto-Turkic temür — iron.
Ancestry of “Timur”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Persian
تیمور
Timur; Tamerlane (fourteenth-century conqueror)
2
Proto-Turkic
temür
iron
Words derived from “Timur”
Timur
Timurid
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