Timur

Gender: Masculine
Usage: Tatar, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkish, Russian, History
Scripts Тимур(Tatar, Chechen, Kazakh, Russian)Төмөр(Mongolian Cyrillic)
Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as TİMUR in uppercase and timur in lowercase.

Meaning

From the Turkic and Mongol name Temür meaning “iron”. This was the name of several Mongol, Turkic and Yuan leaders. A notable bearer was Timur, also known as Tamerlane (from Persian تیمور لنگ (Timur e Lang) meaning “Timur the lame”), a 14th-century Turkic leader who conquered large areas of Western Asia.
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