timur lenk

1. 1.

   Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)

   SynonymsTamerlaneTamburlaineTimur

   Broaderruler

Questions about timur lenk

What does timur lenk mean?

timur lenk means "Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)".

What is another word for timur lenk?

Close synonyms include Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Timur. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is timur lenk a common word?

timur lenk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.