Where does “Timur” come from?

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

Ancestry of “Timur”, step by step

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

Words derived from “Timur”

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