: a man of property, authority, or education in an eastern Mediterranean country
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Gyumri, Armenia / Effendi hasn’t spotted Satyrus effendi, a rare butterfly named for her father—Azerbaijani entomologist Rustam Effendi—in the wild.
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National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
And David, once dignified with the Turkish honorific effendi, would die in Auschwitz with much of his family in 1943.
—The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
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National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
And David, once dignified with the Turkish honorific effendi, would die in Auschwitz with much of his family in 1943.
—The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
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“Effendi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effendi. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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