tamburlaine meaning

Noun: Tamburlaine  'tambur`leyn

1. Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
   - Tamerlane, Timur, Timur Lenk

Type of: ruler, swayer

Encyclopedia: Tamburlaine

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1. the second part of tamburlaine the great
2. tamburlaine the great first part
3. Tamburlaine Must Die, by Louise Welsh ( Canongate)
4. Once Shakespeare had emancipated himself from the author of " Tamburlaine,"
5. The sequence was changed so that Tamburlaine instead defiles books representing all religious texts.