أفندي

Arabic

Etymology

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

Noun

أَفَنْدِي • (ʾafandī) m (dual أَفَنْدِيَّان‎ (ʾafandiyyān), plural أَفَنْدِيَّة‎ (ʾafandiyya))

Honorific address on an adult male; mister, sir, efendi

Declension

Declension of noun أَفَنْدِي (ʾafandī)

Singular	singular invariable
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī	الْأَفَنْدِي‎ al-ʾafandī	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī
Nominative	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī	الْأَفَنْدِي‎ al-ʾafandī	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī
Accusative	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī	الْأَفَنْدِي‎ al-ʾafandī	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī
Genitive	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī	الْأَفَنْدِي‎ al-ʾafandī	أَفَنْدِي ʾafandī
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَفَنْدِيَّيْن‎ ʾafandiyyayn	الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْن‎ al-ʾafandiyyayn	أَفَنْدِيَّيْ‎ ʾafandiyyay
Nominative	أَفَنْدِيَّانِ‎ ʾafandiyyāni	الْأَفَنْدِيَّانِ‎ al-ʾafandiyyāni	أَفَنْدِيَّا‎ ʾafandiyyā
Accusative	أَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ‎ ʾafandiyyayni	الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ‎ al-ʾafandiyyayni	أَفَنْدِيَّيْ‎ ʾafandiyyay
Genitive	أَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ‎ ʾafandiyyayni	الْأَفَنْدِيَّيْنِ‎ al-ʾafandiyyayni	أَفَنْدِيَّيْ‎ ʾafandiyyay
Plural	broken plural triptote in ـَة (-a)
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَفَنْدِيَّة‎ ʾafandiyya	الْأَفَنْدِيَّة‎ al-ʾafandiyya	أَفَنْدِيَّة‎ ʾafandiyyat
Nominative	أَفَنْدِيَّةٌ‎ ʾafandiyyatun	الْأَفَنْدِيَّةُ‎ al-ʾafandiyyatu	أَفَنْدِيَّةُ‎ ʾafandiyyatu
Accusative	أَفَنْدِيَّةً‎ ʾafandiyyatan	الْأَفَنْدِيَّةَ‎ al-ʾafandiyyata	أَفَنْدِيَّةَ‎ ʾafandiyyata
Genitive	أَفَنْدِيَّةٍ‎ ʾafandiyyatin	الْأَفَنْدِيَّةِ‎ al-ʾafandiyyati	أَفَنْدِيَّةِ‎ ʾafandiyyati

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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