айванлан

Chuvash

Etymology

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

Verb

айванлан • (ajvanlan)

1. to become stupid, become foolish

   Synonym: ансухлан (ans̬uhlan)

References

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