bogatyr

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian богаты́рь (bogatýrʹ), Old East Slavic богатꙑрь (bogatyrĭ), 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 batyr, Middle Turkic baɣatur. Doublet of bahadur.

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Noun

bogatyr (plural bogatyrs or bogatyri)

  1. (historical) A medieval heroic warrior in Kievan Rus, 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 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.

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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.

French

Etymology

From a Turkic language, probably Khazar. See bogatyr for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

bogatyr m (plural bogatyrs)

  1. bogatyr

Portuguese

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Noun

bogatyr m (plural bogatyres)

  1. bogatyr (medieval Russian heroic warrior)