bogatyr

See also: Bogatyr

English

WOTD – 16 September 2015

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian богаты́рь (bogatýrʹ), from a Turkic language, probably Khazar, from Old Turkic baɣatur (“hero”), from Proto-Turkic *bAgatur (“hero”). Cognates include Turkish bahadır, Tatar баһадир (bahadir), Chuvash паттӑр (pattăr), Kyrgyz баатыр (baatır), Tuvan маатыр (maatır), Yakut баатыр (baatır), Turkmen баатыр, Middle Turkic baɣatur.

Noun

Three famous Russian bogatyrs - Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets and Alyosha Popovich

bogatyr (plural bogatyrs or bogatyri)

1. (historical) A medieval Russian heroic warrior, akin to the Western European knight-errant.
   • 1998, James Bailey, Tatyana Ivanova (translators and editors), An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics, page 17,

     There was no answer from the bogatyr.

     Ilya shouted even louder than before,

     Louder than before, in a shrill voice—

     There was no answer from the bogatyr.

   • 2011, Rosamund Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 2:

     Later on, he^[Tolstoy] was equated with Ilya Muromets, the most famous Russian bogatyr - a semi-mythical medieval warrior who lay at home on the brick stove until he was thirty-three - then went on to perform great feats defending the realm. Ilya Muromets is Russia's traditional symbol of physical and spiritual strength.

   • 2011, Konstantin M Averin, Tatiana I Pavlova, To Be Or Not to Be Russian?, page 31,

     Some variants of the tale say that all the bogatyrs perished in the battle except Ilya of Murom, who, however, died after coming back as a winner.

Translations

medieval Russian heroic warrior — see also bahadur

• Adyghe: батыр (batər)
• Arabic: بُوغَاتِير m (būḡātīr)
• Armenian: բոգատիր (bogatir)
• Azerbaijani: bahadır (az)
• Bashkir: батыр (batır), баһадир (bahadir)
• Belarusian: багаты́р m (bahatýr)
• Chuvash: паттăр (pattăr), пăхаттир (păhattir)
• Crimean Tatar: batır
• Czech: bohatýr m
• Finnish: bogatyr (fi)
• French: bogatyr (fr) m
• Georgian: ბოგატირი (bogaṭiri)
• German: Bogatyr m
• Hungarian: bogatir (hu)
• Italian: bogatyr m
• Japanese: ボガティール (bogatīru)
• Kalmyk: баатр (baatr)
• Kazakh: батыр (batyr), баһадур (bahadur)
• Korean: 보가티르 (bogatireu)
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• Kyrgyz: баатыр (ky) (baatır)
• Macedonian: богатир m (bogatir)
• Mongolian: баатар (mn) (baatar)
• Nogai: баьтир (bätir)
• Polish: bohater (pl) m
• Portuguese: bogatyr m, bogatir m
• Romanian: bogatâr (ro) m
• Russian: богаты́рь (ru) m (bogatýrʹ), ви́тязь (ru) m (vítjazʹ)
• Shor: матыр (matır)
• Spanish: bogatyr m
• Swedish: bogatyr c
• Tatar: баһадир (tt) (bahadir), батыр (tt) (batır)
• Turkish: bahadır (tr)
• Turkmen: batyr (tk)
• Ukrainian: богати́р (uk) m (bohatýr)
• Uyghur: باھادىر (bahadir), باتۇر (ug) (batur)
• Uzbek: bahodir (uz), botir (uz)
• Yakut: боотур (bootur)

Related terms

• bahadur
• Ulaanbaatar

See also

• Kievan Rus

References

• Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), Moscow, 1974–
• A Study of the Proto-Turkic tor 'general', by Choi Han-Woo, Handong University, Korea. In: International Journal of Central Asian Studies, Volume 10-1, 2005, p.220. ISSN 1226-4490.

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French

Etymology

From a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language, probably (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Khazar. See bogatyr for more.

Noun

bogatyr m (plural bogatyrs)

1. bogatyr

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bogatir

Noun

bogatyr m (plural bogatyres)

1. bogatyr (medieval Russian heroic warrior)