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айван

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Chuvash

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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айван (ajvan)

  1. stupid, unreasonable
  2. naïve, aloof

References

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  • айван”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (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

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Etymology

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From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

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айван (ayvan)

  1. animal