айван
Appearance
Chuvash
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Persian حِیْوان (hâyvan, “animal, beast; brutish person”). Compare Bashkir хайуан (xaywan) and Tatar хайван (xaywan), borrowed from the same source.
Adjective
[edit]айван • (ajvan)
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).
Noun
[edit]айван • (ayvan)