افندی
See also: أفندي
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- էֆէնտի (efendi) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology edit
From Byzantine Greek ἀφέντης (aphéntēs) (modern Greek αφέντης (aféntis)), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs).
Noun edit
افندی • (efendi)
Derived terms edit
- افندیلك (efendilik)
- بك افندی (bey efendi)
- خانم افندی (hanım efendi)
- قادین افندی (kadın efendi)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: efendi
- → Japanese: エフェンディ (efendi)
- → Arabic: أفندي (ʔafandī)
- → Bengali: আফেন্দী (afendī)
- → Armenian: էֆենդի (ēfendi)
- → Aromanian: afendi, afendu
- → Bashkir: әфәнде (əfənde)
- → Bulgarian: ефенди́я (efendíja), ефе́нди (eféndi)
- → Crimean Tatar: efendi
- → English: effendi
- → Finnish: efendi
- → French: efendi
- → German: Efendi, Effendi
- → Georgian: ეფენდი (ependi)
- → Hebrew: אפנדי (efendi)
- → Indonesian: efendi
- → Italian: effendi
- → Kazakh: әпенді (äpendı)
- → Kyrgyz: апенде (apende), апенди (apendi)
- → Northern Kurdish: efendî, efendiyane and efendîtî
- → Kumyk: апенди (apendi)
- → Macedonian: ефендија (efendija), ефенди (efendi)
- → Persian: آفندی (âfandi), افندی (afandi)
- → Polish: efendi
- → Portuguese: efêndi
- → Romanian: afendi, efendi
- → Russian: эфе́нди (eféndi), эффе́нди (efféndi)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: efendi
- → Spanish: effendi
- → Swahili: afande
- → Tajik: афандӣ (afandī)
- → Tatar: әфәнде (äfände)
- → Uzbek: afandi
- → Uyghur: ئەپەندى (ependi)
- → Chinese: 阿凡提 (āfántí)
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “efendi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “افندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 160