Re: Indika
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 21:07 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> And was does "effendi" mean? I've seen it in Turkish names often enough, but I
> don't think I've ever seen it in English? The dictionaries I check didn't have
> it.
A man of property, authority, or education in an eastern Mediterranean country,
says m-w.com. First recorded in English in 1614.
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