Tengri

English

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language; ultimately from Proto-Turkic *teŋri (“sky, heaven, god”). Compare Turkish tanrı (“god”).

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Tengri

  1. (Turkic mythology) The chief deity of various historic pagan Turkic peoples.

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