айван

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^[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

Etymology

From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

айван • (ayvan)

1. animal