Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

железный хромец

English translation:

Timur Leng

Added to glossary by Leah Aharoni
Feb 10, 2008 08:14
16 yrs ago
Russian term

железный хромец

Russian to English Social Sciences History
From an essay on the history of Bukharian Jews. The following sentence appearance in the description of Timur's conquest of Central Asia:

Первый, был город, в котором родился «железный хромец», а второй он сделал столицей своей империи, ввиду выгодного стратегического расположения.

TIA,

Leah
Proposed translations (English)
5 +6 Timur Leng

Discussion

Jim Tucker (X) Feb 10, 2008:
You might also put his traditional English name, Tamerlane, in parentheses.
salavat Feb 10, 2008:
Тода, Лея!

Proposed translations

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Timur Leng

Тамерлан

Timur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHe is also called Timur Leng [Timur the lame]. He was the son of a tribal leader, and he claimed (apparently for the first time in 1370) to be a descendant ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur

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Note added at 6 mins (2008-02-10 08:20:55 GMT)
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Тамерлан, или "Тимур ленк", и переводится с тюркского как "железный хромец".
Peer comment(s):

agree Anton Konashenok
0 min
Спасибо, Антон!
agree Ekaterina Filatova : Timur the Lame, the Lame Conquerer
3 mins
Спасибо!
agree Tatiana Lammers
14 mins
Спасибо, Татьяна!
agree koundelev
19 mins
Спасибо, Георгий!
agree Sergei Tumanov
1 hr
Спасибо, Сергей!
agree Stephen Smith
9 hrs
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