أفندي

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Arabic

Etymology

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

Noun

أَفَنْدِي • (ʔafandī) m (dual أَفَنْدِيَّان (ʔafandiyyān), plural أَفَنْدِيَّة (ʔafandiyya))

  1. honorific address on an adult male; mister, sir, efendi
  2. (Lebanon) tangerine, mandarin orange (fruit)

Declension

Declension of noun أَفَنْدِي (ʔafandī)
Singular singular invariable
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī 		الْأَفَنْدِي
al-ʔafandī 		أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī
Nominative أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī 		الْأَفَنْدِي
al-ʔafandī 		أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī
Accusative أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī 		الْأَفَنْدِي
al-ʔafandī 		أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī
Genitive أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī 		الْأَفَنْدِي
al-ʔafandī 		أَفَنْدِي
ʔafandī
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَفَنْدِيَّيْن
ʔafandiyyayn 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْن
al-ʔafandiyyayn 		أَفَنْدِيَّيْ
ʔafandiyyay
Nominative أَفَنْدِيَّانِ
ʔafandiyyāni 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّانِ
al-ʔafandiyyāni 		أَفَنْدِيَّا
ʔafandiyyā
Accusative أَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ
ʔafandiyyayni 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ
al-ʔafandiyyayni 		أَفَنْدِيَّيْ
ʔafandiyyay
Genitive أَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ
ʔafandiyyayni 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ
al-ʔafandiyyayni 		أَفَنْدِيَّيْ
ʔafandiyyay
Plural broken plural triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَفَنْدِيَّة
ʔafandiyya 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّة
al-ʔafandiyya 		أَفَنْدِيَّة
ʔafandiyyat
Nominative أَفَنْدِيَّةٌ
ʔafandiyyatun 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّةُ
al-ʔafandiyyatu 		أَفَنْدِيَّةُ
ʔafandiyyatu
Accusative أَفَنْدِيَّةً
ʔafandiyyatan 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّةَ
al-ʔafandiyyata 		أَفَنْدِيَّةَ
ʔafandiyyata
Genitive أَفَنْدِيَّةٍ
ʔafandiyyatin 		الْأَفَنْدِيَّةِ
al-ʔafandiyyati 		أَفَنْدِيَّةِ
ʔafandiyyati

Derived terms

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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