Borjigin

English Etymology From en mn ᠪᠣᠷᠵᠢᠭᠢᠨ. According to Rashid al-Din Hamadani, in his Jami' al-Tawarikh Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh, and later Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, in his Genealogy of the Turks, this name meant 'having eyes of the color اشهل (ašhal) ~ شهلا (šahlā)', i.e. 'dark blue eyes',The Secret History of the Mongols 2004 238 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Secret_History_of_the_Mongols/12YMAQAAMAAJTransactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=mLOFAAAAIAAJ 144 which Genghis Khan and his brothers reputedly all had. However, according to Igor de Rachewiltz, "The etymology of the name Borjigin is uncertain. The unreliable interpretation given by Rašīd (borjigin = 'man with dark blue eyes') accounts, through a further misunderstanding, also for the imaginary grey (pmo. Proto-Mongolic, mo. Mongolic boro), or cat's eyes of Činggis Qan, regularly ascribed to the conqueror by modern authors." Pronunciation en /ˈbɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪɡɪn/ Proper noun The clan which Genghis Khan was a member of References