чуваш
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See also: чуващ
Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Verb
чу́ваш • (čúvaš)
- second-person singular present indicative of чу́вам (čúvam)
Russian
Etymology
Attested early 16th century in the obsolete form чюваши m pl (čjuvaši). Borrowed from Turkic whence modern Chuvash чӑваш (čăvaš, “Chuvash”), Tatar чуаш (çuwaş, “Chuvash”), and Eastern Mari суас (suas, “Tatar”). In the 16th and 17th century the Russian term may have referred to a social estate rather than a particular ethnicity. Further etymology uncertain; there are a number of hypotheses.
- According to Vasmer, from Proto-Turkic *yabaĺč (“quiet, peaceful, slow”) (compare modern Turkish yavaş).
- According to Clauson, perhaps related to Old Turkic 𐱃𐰉𐰍𐰲 (Tabγač), a Turkic name for a Xianbei clan in inner China, the Tuoba.
- According to Ashmarin, from the Sabir or Suar people, a Turkic group mentioned in Byzantine and Arabic sources.
Pronunciation
Noun
чува́ш • (čuváš) m anim (genitive чуваша́, nominative plural чуваши́, genitive plural чуваше́й, feminine чува́шка)
- a Chuvash
Declension
Declension of чува́ш (anim masc-form sibilant-stem accent-b)
Related terms
- чува́шский (čuvášskij)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чуваш”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Clauson, Gerard (2002) Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, 2nd edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 23