арӑслан

Chuvash

Etymology

Borrowed from Tatar арыслан (arıslan), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan (“lion”). Replaced the inherited form услан (uslan), now only found in услан кайӑк (uslan k̬ajăk, “lion”). Cognate with Russian Русла́н (Ruslán) and Hungarian oroszlán.

Noun

арӑслан • (arăslan) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural арӑслансем) 

1. lion

References

• Eren, Hasan (1982), “Remarks on V. G. Egorov's Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language”, in Studies in Chuvash Etymology I, page 22
• Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “араслан/арӑслан/услан”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 56
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964), “арӑслан”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, pages 31-32

Further reading

• “арӑслан”, in Электронлӑ сӑмахсар [Ɛlektronlă s̬ămaxsar]‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.