tekin

thumb|Possible Hephthalite ruler. Shahi Tegin 728 CE.

Tegin (, also tigin, MC *dək-gɨn > Pinyin: Tèqín; , erroneously Tèlè ) is a Turkic title, commonly attachable to the names of the junior members of the Khagan's family. However, Ligeti cast doubts on the Turkic provenance by pointing to the non-Turkic plural form tegit. According to Mahmud al-Kashgari, tegin means 'servant, slave' ().