Shere Khan is depicted by Kipling with being born with a crippled leg and was derisively nicknamed "Lungri" ("The Lame One") by his mother. According to The Kipling Society, the name "show that he is the chief among tigers." The original Jungle Book stories
The name roughly translates as tiger ruler, with shere ( Persian: شیر, pronounced ) being the Persian word for ' tiger' and khan being used as a title of distinction among the Turco-Mongol peoples, usually meaning chief or ruler. Shere Khan ( Hindi- शेर खान/ English pronunciation / ˈ ʃ ɪər ˈ k ɑː n/) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and its adaptations.
Shere Khan and his wolf followers, as illustrated by Maurice de Becque in a 1924 French edition of The Jungle Book
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