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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

effendi (plural effendis or effendi)

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.
   • 1929 November 30, Judah L. Kaufman, quotee, “BRITISH LABOR HAILS PALESTINE WORKERS; […]”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2025:

     The real problem of the Arabian population in Palestine is how to get rid of the economic domination and control by approximately 100 families of effendi who now own the land, keeping the fellaheen in obscurity and ignorance and subjecting them to merciless exploitation.

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

  Latin: 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