subay

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  olarak  kurmay  subay   oldu .

Si laureò all'Accademia militare e divenne un ufficiale dello staff.

(Inglese)

officer

Frequenza

C1
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

Probably from a misinterpretation of Chagatai [script needed] (subay, “light cavalry”) as a compound cognate with Old Turkic 𐰾𐰇 (s²ü, “army; spearmen; heavily armed pedestrian or horsemen”) and Old Turkic 𐰋𐰏 (b²g, “lord”) and thus having the meaning 'army lord', in order to coin a replacement for the Ottoman ضابط (“zâbit”) during Turkish language reform. See more at Azerbaijani subay.

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