By birth, Timur was a Mongol. Why did he have the nicknames Leng and Aksak, which do not come from the Mongolian language?

bystudin | October 31, 2020 | Education

Leng and Aksak mean one word – “lame”, but in different languages: Persian and Turkic. These two languages were the state languages in the state of Timur, and few people knew the Mongolian language (except for a few words denoting military commands).

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