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