The story
- Arabic · derived fromمُدِير“directing one, governor, boss”
- Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromمدیر“local administrator, governor”
- English todaymudir
From Ottoman Turkish مدیر (müdir, “local administrator, governor”), from Arabic مُدِير (mudīr, “directing one, governor, boss”), from أَدَارَ (ʔadāra, “to direct”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.