Oebarsius or Aybars[1][2] (died after 448)[3] was a Hun nobleman, brother of Mundzuk and uncle of Bleda and Attila.

He was held in great honor, and sat next to Attila at royal banquets.[4] Oebarsius was probably never a king,[3] and had no dominion of his own.[5] He was still alive in 448.[3]

Pritsak considered that the name is a transcription of Turkic Oibars, meaning "yellow leopard" (hence "lion").[6] According to Hyun Jin Kim, his name is connected to Turkic Aybars, meaning "leopard of the moon", an ongon in the Turkic mythology.[7] There are other opinions about the affinity of his name with Oebasus, the Latin form of an Iranian name.[8] His name, possibly as many other recorded by Priscus, might have been Grecisized.[9]

References

  1. ^ Man, John (2010). Attila The Hun. Transworld. p. 156. ISBN 9781409045366. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  2. ^ Ankara Üniversitesi. Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi (1943). Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi dergisi Volume 2 (in Turkish). Türk Tarih Kurumu Matbaasi. p. 557. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Bleeker, Ronald A. (2022). Aspar and the Struggle for the Eastern Roman Empire, AD 421–71. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 9781350279278. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  4. ^ Kim, Hyun Jin (2015). The Huns. Taylor & Francis. p. 79. ISBN 9781317340911. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  5. ^ Wolfram, Herwig (2005). Dunlap, Thomas (ed.). The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. University of California Press. p. 143. ISBN 9780520244900. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  6. ^ Neshanyan, Savan. "Aybars - Nishanyan Names". Nişanyan Adlar. Sevan Nişanyan. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  7. ^ Kim, Hyun Jin (2021). Rome and China: Points of Contact. London. pp. 139–40. ISBN 9781315280714. Retrieved 17 March 2023.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Sabbatini Tumolesi, Patrizia; Gregori, Gian Luca; Orlandi, Silvia; Buonocore, Marco; Fora, Maurizio; Vismara, Cinzia; Caldelli, Maria Letizia (1988). Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell'occidente romano Volume 6 (in Italian). Quasar. pp. 354, 473. ISBN 9788871402659. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  9. ^ Hodgkin, Thomas (1892). Italy and Her Invaders: The Hunnish invasion. The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny. Clarendon Press. p. 74.
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