افندی
See also: أفندي
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek ἀφέντης (aphéntēs) (modern Greek αφέντης (aféntis)), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs).
Noun
افندی • (efendi)
- mister, lord, sir, effendi a title applied to anyone who is not titled بك (beg)
Descendants
- Turkish: efendi
- → Japanese: エフェンディ (efendi)
- → Arabic: أفندي (ʾafandī)
- → Bengali: আফেন্দী (afendī)
- → Armenian: էֆենդի (ēfendi)
- → Aromanian: afendi, afendu
- → Bashkir: әфәнде (äfände)
- → 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:
- Cyrillic: ефѐндија, efèndi
- Latin: efèndija, efèndi
- → Slovene: efendija, efendi
- → Slovak: efendi
- → Spanish: effendi
- → Swahili: afande
- → Tajik: афандӣ (afandī)
- → Tatar: әфәнде (äfände)
- → Uzbek: afandi
- → Uyghur: ئەپەندى (ependi)
- → Chinese: 阿凡提 (āfántí)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “efendi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “افندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 160