أفندي

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))

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

Declension

Declension of noun أَفَنْدِي (ʔafandī)

Singular	singular invariable
Singular	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)
Plural	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

يوسف أفندي

References

Wehr, Hans (1979) “أفندي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN