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What does temujin mean?
Given name of Genghis Khan.
Where does temujin come from?
Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠵᠢᠨ (temüǰin). Possibly from Proto-Turkic *temürči(n) (“blacksmith”).

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