айванлан

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Chuvash

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Etymology

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From айван (ajvan) +‎ -лан (-lan). Ultimately from Classical Persian حِیْوان (hâyvan, animal).

Verb

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айванлан (ajvanlan)

  1. to become stupid, become foolish
    Synonym: ансухлан (ans̬uhlan)

References

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  • айванлан”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “айванлан”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 22