blockhead, dimwit (stupid person) · dummy (in card games) · block (for hats or wigs)
çekim: çoğul болва́ны · tamlayan болва́на
eş: идол, глупец, дурак, тупица, остолоп, кретин
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъlvanъ, *balъvanъ (“idol”). Cognate with Polish bałwan (“snowman”), Old Church Slavonic балванъ (balvanŭ, “statue”) and Serbo-Croatian ба̀лван (“beam, log”). Related to Latvian bulvāns (“decoy”). Possibly borrowed from a Turkic language, compare Proto-Turkic *balbal (“gravestone”).
aile: болва́нка, оболва́нить, оболва́нивать
Э́тот болва́н так и не по́нял что́ от него́ тре́бовалось.
köken: Borrowed from French crétin from an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Vulgar Latin christiānus in the sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”.