Tegin

{{Short description|Turkic title}}{{see also|Tekin}}

{{Royal and noble ranks in Iran, Turkey, Caucasus, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan}}

File:White Hun.jpg ruler. Shahi Tegin 728 CE.Ancient Coin Collecting VI: Non-Classical Cultures, by Wayne G. Sayles [https://books.google.com/books?id=YTGRcVLMg6MC&pg=PA81 p.81]]]

Tegin ({{langx|otk|𐱅𐰃𐰏𐰤|tegin}}, also tigin, MC *dək-gɨn > Pinyin: Tèqín; {{zh|c=特勤}}, erroneously Tèlè {{zh|c=特勒|labels=no}}Sanping Chen, "Son of Heaven and Son of God: Interactions among Ancient Asiatic Cultures regarding Sacral Kingship and Theophoric Names", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), p. 296: Writing 勒 instead of 勤 is a common script error in current editions of almost all dynastic histories{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/34589694|title=The Khüis Tolgoi inscription - signs and sounds|first=Dieter |last=Maue|website=Academia.edu|accessdate=4 November 2018}} p. 13-14 ) is a Turkic title, commonly attachable to the names of the junior members of the Khagan's family.Jiu Tangshu vol 194 upper [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%88%8A%E5%94%90%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7194%E4%B8%8A] "可汗者，猶古之單于；[...] 其子弟謂之特[勤] (ms. 特勒)" Tr. "the Kehan, in the past, was called Chanyu: [...] His sons and younger brothers are called Te[qin] (ms. Tele)"(in Chinese)Xin Tangshu Vol. 215 upper [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E5%94%90%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7215%E4%B8%8A] (in Chinese) "至吐門，遂強大，更號可汗，猶單於也，[..] 子弟曰特[勤] (ms. 特勒)" tr. "Till Tumen, [who] has achieved strength and greatness and is now called Kehan, formerly Chanyu, [...] [his] sons and younger brothers are called Te[qin] (ms. Tele)Taskin V. S. "Materials on history of Dunhu group nomadic tribes", Moscow, 1984, p. 432 However, Ligeti cast doubts on the Turkic provenance by pointing to the non-Turkic plural form tegit.{{Citation | first = L | last = Ligeti | title = Researches in Altaic languages | editor-first = A | editor-last = Kiadó | year = 1975 | publisher = University of Michigan | page = 48}} According to Mahmud al-Kashgari, tegin means 'servant, slave' ({{lang|tr|kul, köle}}).{{TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/tegin#:~:text=Baz%C4%B1%20T%C3%BCrk%20devletlerinde%20h%C3%BCk%C3%BCmdar%20soyundan%20gelen%20erkek%20%C3%A7ocuklara%20verilen%20unvan.&text=K%C3%A2%C5%9Fgarl%C4%B1%20Mahmud%20tegin%20(tigin%2C%20tekin,I%2C%20355%2C%20413)|title=TEGİN Bazı Türk devletlerinde hükümdar soyundan gelen erkek çocuklara verilen unvan.|author=Ömer Soner Hunkan}}