Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish افندی (efendi), from Greek αφέντη (afénti), vocative of αφέντης (aféntis), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, lord, master).

Noun edit

أَفَنْدِي (ʔafandīm (dual أَفَنْدِيَّان (ʔafandiyyān), plural أَفَنْدِيَّة (ʔafandiyya))

  1. honorific address on an adult male; mister, sir, efendi
  2. (Lebanon) tangerine, mandarin orange (fruit)

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References edit

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “أفندي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN