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effendi

effendi

See also: efendî

English

Alternative forms

efendee

Noun

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.

Translations

title of respect

Albanian: efendi (sq)
Arabic: أَفَنْدِي m ‎(ʾafandī)
Armenian: էֆենդի (hy) ‎(ēfendi)
Avar: апанди ‎(apandi)
Azeri: əfəndi
Bashkir: әфәнде ‎(äfände)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿凡提 (zh) ‎(āfántí)
Crimean Tatar: efendi
Czech: efendi (cs)
French: effendi (fr) m
German: Efendi m, Effendi m
Hebrew: אפנדי m
Indonesian: efendi (id)
Italian: efendi m, effendi m
Japanese: エフェンディ ‎(efendi)
Kazakh: әпенде ‎(äpende)
Korean: 에펜디 ‎(ependi)
Kumyk: апенди

Kurdish:
Kurmanji: efendî (ku)
Persian: افندی (fa) ‎(efendi)
Portuguese: efêndi m
Russian: эфе́нди (ru) m ‎(efɛ́ndi), эффе́нди (ru) m ‎(effɛ́ndi)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ефендија m

Roman: efendija (sh) m
Slovak: efendi
Slovene: efendija m, efendi m
Tajik: афандӣ ‎(afandī)
Tatar: әфәнде (tt) ‎(äfände)
Turkish: efendi (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: افندی
Turkmen: ependi
Uyghur: ئەپەندى ‎(ependi)
Uzbek: afandi (uz)