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- tamerlane(n = noun.person) tamburlaine, timur, timur lenk - Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405);
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A Tatar conquerer, also called Timur or Timour (tTimur Bey, also Timur-Leng ('Timur the Lame'), which was corrupted to Tamerlane . He was born in Central Asia, 1333: died 1405. Though he claimed descent from Jenghiz Khan, it is believed that he was in fact descended from a follower of the Khan. He became a ruler about 1370 of a realm whose capital was Samarkand; conquered Persia, Central Asia, and in 1398 a great part of India, including Delhi; waged war with the Turkish Sultan Bajazet I. (Beyazid), whom he defeated at Ancyra in 1402 and took prisoner; and died while preparing to invade China. He is the Tamerlaine of the plays. [Century Dict. 1906]