subay

Etymology
The word is commonly assumed to derive from, see 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬. The sense 'bachelor; childless' occurs in Turkish dialects as well, possibly as a borrowing from Azerbaijani.

According to Doerfer, the word underwent the following semantic developments in (primarily) Central Asian Turkic languages: 'barren'→ 'unattached, not married' → 'light cavalry (unattached, unburdened by load)'; he then attributes 🇨🇬 to a semantic narrowing of an unattested sense '*light cavalry officer'. However, neither Azerbaijani nor have the sense 'officer'.

Alternatively, the Turkish was coined as a replacement for   during the, in which case the coinage was a misinterpretation of 🇨🇬 as a compound cognate with and.

Noun

 * 1) bachelor, bachelorette; unmarried person.

Adjective

 * 1) unmarried, single, unattached

Noun

 * 1) ant

Etymology
Probably from a misinterpretation of 🇨🇬 as a compound cognate with and and thus having the meaning 'army lord', in order to coin a replacement for the Ottoman  during. See more at 🇨🇬. CAT:Turkish coinages

Noun

 * 1)  officer