أفندي
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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 • (ʔafandī) m (dual أَفَنْدِيَّان (ʔafandiyyān), plural أَفَنْدِيَّة (ʔafandiyya))
- honorific address on an adult male; mister, sir, efendi
- (Lebanon) tangerine, mandarin orange (fruit)
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun أَفَنْدِي (ʔafandī)
Singular | singular invariable | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
الْأَفَنْدِي al-ʔafandī |
أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
Nominative | أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
الْأَفَنْدِي al-ʔafandī |
أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
Accusative | أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
الْأَفَنْدِي al-ʔafandī |
أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
Genitive | أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
الْأَفَنْدِي al-ʔafandī |
أَفَنْدِي ʔafandī |
Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
Informal | أَفَنْدِيَّيْن ʔafandiyyayn |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْن al-ʔafandiyyayn |
أَفَنْدِيَّيْ ʔafandiyyay |
Nominative | أَفَنْدِيَّانِ ʔafandiyyāni |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّانِ al-ʔafandiyyāni |
أَفَنْدِيَّا ʔafandiyyā |
Accusative | أَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ ʔafandiyyayni |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ al-ʔafandiyyayni |
أَفَنْدِيَّيْ ʔafandiyyay |
Genitive | أَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ ʔafandiyyayni |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ al-ʔafandiyyayni |
أَفَنْدِيَّيْ ʔafandiyyay |
Plural | broken plural triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | أَفَنْدِيَّة ʔafandiyya |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّة al-ʔafandiyya |
أَفَنْدِيَّة ʔafandiyyat |
Nominative | أَفَنْدِيَّةٌ ʔafandiyyatun |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّةُ al-ʔafandiyyatu |
أَفَنْدِيَّةُ ʔafandiyyatu |
Accusative | أَفَنْدِيَّةً ʔafandiyyatan |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّةَ al-ʔafandiyyata |
أَفَنْدِيَّةَ ʔafandiyyata |
Genitive | أَفَنْدِيَّةٍ ʔafandiyyatin |
الْأَفَنْدِيَّةِ al-ʔafandiyyati |
أَفَنْدِيَّةِ ʔafandiyyati |
Derived terms
[edit]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
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- Arabic terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Arabic terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Arabic terms derived from Greek
- Arabic terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Arabic lemmas
- Arabic nouns
- Arabic masculine nouns
- Arabic nouns with invariable singular
- Arabic nouns with broken plural
- Arabic nouns with triptote broken plural in -a