Tamerlan
Тамерлан
From Timur, the 14th-century conqueror known as Timur-e Lang, "Timur the Lame", combining a Turkic word for iron with the Persian word for lame.
Meaning and origin
Tamerlan preserves the nickname of Timur, the Turco-Mongol conqueror who built a vast empire across Central Asia and Persia in the 14th century and is said to have walked with a limp from an old wound, hence the Persian…
How to pronounce Tamerlan
| English (US) | TAM-ur-lan /ˈtæmərlæn/ |
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