أفندي

Arabic

Etymology

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

Noun

أَفَنْدِي (ʾafandī) m (dual أَفَنْدِيَّان (ʾafandiyyān), plural أَفَنْدِيَّة (ʾafandiyya))

  1. honorific address on an adult male; mister, sir, efendi

Declension

References

  • 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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