köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اوغلان (oġlan), from Proto-Turkic *oglan. cognates Cognate with Bashkir улан (ulan), Kazakh ұлан (ūlan), Tatar олан (olan), улан (ulan), углан (uğlan), Turkish oğlan, Turkmen oglan, Uzbek oʻgʻlon. See also English uhlan.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *bāla. Cognate with Kazakh бала (bala), Kyrgyz бала (bala), Crimean Tatar bala, Kumyk бала (bala), Shor пала, Western Yugur mïla, etc.
köken: Probably from Russian мало́й (malój), ма́лый (mályj), ultimately from a Turkic source, or from Proto-Turkic *bāla (“child”) with the vocative affix -y, as in атай (atay, “father”), әсәй (əsəy, “mother”). Cognate with Tatar малай (malay, “boy”), Uzbek malay (“young male servant”), Uyghur مالاي (malay, “young male servant”).
Ә был йортта малай йәнһүрәт ҡарай.
Киләсәктә малай Голливудҡа барырға йыйына.
Малайҙар тиҙ-тиҙ ашанылар ҙа, "рәхмәт" тип сығып киттеләр.
köken: From chłop + -ak. Originally from the Mazovian dialect, as there is a tendency to use the suffix -ak instead of -ę to create young nouns (compare Polish dziecię vs Polish dzieciak, źrebię vs źrebak). First attested in 1731.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian بَچَّه (bačča), from Proto-Iranian *wacáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *watsás, from Proto-Indo-European *wetsós, from *wétos + *-ós. Doublet of बछड़ा (bachṛā, “calf, child, boy”).
köken: Most likely originated as the past participle of băia (“to care for an infant”), in which case possibly influenced by bărbat in derivation. Compare băiată (“girl”). Other theories suggest a connection to Medieval Latin balietus, from baietus (“page, serving boy”).
According to the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, the term is an evolution of the now obsolete interjections amij, amy or ammy (formed from ah and the personal pronoun mij; compare also French à moi), as an exclamation of sorrow or indignation, pain, aversion, pity, etc.