Çelebi (Turkish pronunciation: [t͡ʃelebi]) was an Ottoman title of respect, approximately corresponding to "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous".[1] Çelebi also means “man of God”, as an i-suffixed derivative from çalab (Turkish pronunciation: [t͡ʃalab]), which means "God" in old Turkish.[2] German linguist and Turkologist Marcel Erdal, citing Baron Tiesenhausen, traces çalab back to Arabic djellaba "importer, trader, merchant" > "high social positions"; jallāb is derived from root j-l-b "to have brought, to import",[3] ultimately from West Semitic root g-l-b "to catch, to fetch".[4]

Notable people with the title include:

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  1. ^ a b "Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi - About". mevlana.net. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  2. ^ What does çalab mean?
  3. ^ Erdal, Marcel. (1982) "Early Turkis Names for the Muslim God and the Title Çelebi" in Asian and African Studies p 411-416 of 407-416.
  4. ^ "glb". American Heritage Dictionary.
  5. ^ "Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi - Mevlevi Order". mevlana.net. Retrieved 5 August 2019.