айван

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Chuvash

Etymology

From Classical Persian حِیْوان (hâyvan, “animal, beast; brutish person”). Compare Bashkir хайуан (xaywan) and Tatar хайван (xaywan), borrowed from the same source.

Adjective

айван • (ajvan)

  1. stupid, unreasonable
  2. naïve, aloof

References

  • “айван”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “айван”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 22

Nogai

Etymology

From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

айван • (ayvan)

  1. animal
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