An educated or well-respected man in an eastern Mediterranean or Arab country; often used as a title of respect or courtesy in Turkey or a former Ottoman territory.
Origin
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish افندی, from Greek αφέντη, vocative of αφέντης, from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης.
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