Jami' al-tawarikh
Historian and statesman of the Ilkhanate, Rashid al-Din Hamadani in his work "Oghuzname", which is part of his extensive history book Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), says that the name "Salyr" means “"wherever you go, you fight with a sword and a club"”, and in the book of the khan and historian of the Khanate of Khiva Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, "Shajara-i Tarākima" (Genealogy of the Turkmens), the meaning of the tribe's name is given as “"armed with a saber"”.