чуваш

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃu̟vɐʃ]

чу́ваш • (čúvaš)

1. second-person singular present indicative of чу́вам (čúvam)

Attested early 16th century in the obsolete form чюваши m pl (čjuvaši). Borrowed from Turkic whence modern Chuvash чӑваш (čăvaš, “Chuvash”), Tatar чуаш (çuwaş, “Chuvash”), and Eastern Mari суас (suas, “Tatar”). In the 16th and 17th century the Russian term may have referred to a social estate rather than a particular ethnicity. Further etymology uncertain; there are a number of hypotheses.

• According to Vasmer, from Proto-Turkic *yabaĺč (“quiet, peaceful, slow”) (compare modern Turkish yavaş).
• According to Clauson, perhaps related to Old Turkic 𐱃𐰉𐰍𐰲 (Tabγač), a Turkic name for a Xianbei clan in inner China, the Tuoba.
• According to Ashmarin, from the Sabir or Suar people, a Turkic group mentioned in Byzantine and Arabic sources.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʊˈvaʂ]
• Rhymes: -aʂ

чува́ш • (čuváš) m anim (genitive чуваша́, nominative plural чуваши́, genitive plural чуваше́й, feminine чува́шка)

1. a Chuvash

• чува́шский (čuvášskij)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чуваш”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Clauson, Gerard (2002) Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, 2nd edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 23