Arabic

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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