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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish افندی (efendi), from Greek αφέντη (afénti), vocative of αφέντης (aféntis), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “lord, master”).
effendi (plural effendis)
- 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.
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:
- 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:
- Kyrgyz: апенди (ky) (apendi), апенде (ky) (apende)
- Macedonian: ефендија m (efendija)
- Pashto: افندي m (afandi)
- Persian:
- Polish: efendi (pl) m
- Portuguese: efêndi m
- Romanian: efendi (ro) m
- Russian: эфе́нди (ru) m (efɛ́ndi), эффе́нди (ru) m (effɛ́ndi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- 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