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Timur

British  
/ tiːˈmʊə /

noun

  1. See Tamerlane

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“It came at a critical moment,” said a soldier who goes by the call sign Konosh, from the Timur Special Forces Unit in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026

Written by Marco van Belle and directed by Russian action auteur Timur Bekmambetov, “Mercy” is a remarkably — though perhaps not surprisingly — conservative film, one that manages to be both pro-cop and pro-AI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

The director is Timur Bekmambetov, who has made such frenzied features as 2008’s “Wanted” and 2016’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and produced last year’s much-ridiculed Prime Video remake of “War of the Worlds.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev has told the BBC through his lawyers that he used a loan from a company called Enviro Pacific Investments to help him buy Andrew's former mansion.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

Jenghiz Khan and Timur covered more ground than Napoleon, and no European has had such an effect on the world as Mahomet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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