effendi

See also: efendî

English

Alternative forms

• afandi
• efendee

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish افندی (efendi), from Greek αφέντη (afénti), vocative of αφέντης (aféntis), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “lord, master”). Doublet of authentic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈfɛndi/

Noun

effendi (plural effendis)

1. An educated or well-respected man in an eastern Mediterranean or Arab country; often used as a title of respect or courtesy in Turkey or a former Ottoman territory.

Translations

title of respect

• Albanian: efendi (sq) m
• Arabic: أَفَنْدِي m (ʔafandī)
• Armenian: էֆենդի (hy) (ēfendi)
• Avar: апанди (apandi)
• Azerbaijani: əfəndi
• Bashkir: әфәнде (əfənde)
• Bengali: আফেন্দী (bn) (afendī)
• Bulgarian: ефенди́я m (efendíja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿凡提 (zh) (āfántí)

• Crimean Tatar: efendi
• Czech: efendi (cs) m
• Finnish: efendi (fi)
• French: effendi (fr) m, efendi (fr) m, éfendi (fr) m
• Georgian: ეფენდი (ependi)
• German: Efendi (de) m, Effendi (de) m
• Greek: εφέντης (el) m (eféntis)
• Hebrew: אֶפֶנְדִּי m (efendi)
• Indonesian: efendi (id)
• Italian: efendi m, effendi m
• Japanese: エフェンディ (efendi)
• Kazakh: әпенде (äpende), әпенді (äpendı)
• Korean: 에펜디 (ependi)
• Kumyk: апенди (apendi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: efendî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: апенди (ky) (apendi), апенде (ky) (apende)
• Macedonian: ефендија m (efendija)
• Pashto: افندي m (afandi)
• Persian:

  Dari: اَفَنْدِی (afandī)

  Iranian Persian: اَفَنْدی (afandi)

• Polish: efendi (pl) m
• Portuguese: efêndi m
• Romanian: efendi (ro) m
• Russian: эфе́нди (ru) m (efɛ́ndi), эффе́нди (ru) m (effɛ́ndi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ефѐндија m

  Roman: efèndija (sh) m

• Slovak: efendi m
• Slovene: efendija m, efendi m
• Tajik: афандӣ (afandi)
• Tatar: әфәнде (tt) (äfände)
• Turkish: efendi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: افندی (efendi)

• Turkmen: ependi
• Ukrainian: ефе́нді m (eféndi)
• Urdu: آفَنْدی (ur) m (āfandī), اَفَنْدی m (afandī)
• Uyghur: ئەپەندى (ependi)
• Uzbek: afandi (uz)
• Zazaki: efendi