köken: Via Volga Turki, from Ottoman Turkish افندی (efendi) (compare modern Turkish efendi, also possibly mediated by Arabic أَفَنْدِي (ʔafandī)), from Greek αφέντη (afénti), vocative of αφέντης (aféntis), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “lord, master”). Cognate with Kazakh әпенді (äpendı, “eccentric person”), Kyrgyz апенде (apende)/апенди (apendi, “eccentric person”), Uzbek afandi (“honorific…