See also: Саян and -саан

Bashkir

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Саян.

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *čadan (scorpion). possibly from Middle Chinese (ʈʰˠaiH) with a final -n added.

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (čadan, scorpion; (astrology) Scorpio); Kazakh шаян (şaän, scorpion), Southern Altai сай (say, scorpion), Uzbek chayon (scorpion), Uyghur چايان (chayan, scorpion), Azerbaijani çayan, Turkish çıyan (scorpion).

Noun

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саян (sayan)

  1. (zoology) scorpion

Declension

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Moksha

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Verb

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саян (sajan)

  1. first-person singular present indicative of самс (sams)