effendi

noun

ef·​fen·​di e-ˈfen-dē 

ə-

: a man of property, authority, or education in an eastern Mediterranean country

Examples of effendi in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gyumri, Armenia / Effendi hasn’t spotted Satyrus effendi, a rare butterfly named for her father—Azerbaijani entomologist Rustam Effendi—in the wild. — 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

Word History

Etymology

Turkish efendi master, from Modern Greek aphentēs, alteration of Greek authentēs — more at authentic

First Known Use

1614, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for effendi

• magendie
• mende
• trendy