Etymology

From مهندس, from Arabic مُهَنْدِس ‎(muhandis), from هَنْدَسَة ‎(handasa), engineering, from earlier هَنْدَزَة ‎(handaza), from هَنْدَاز ‎(handāz), from Middle Persian handʾck' ‎(handāzag, “measure, manner”) (> Persian اندازه ‎(andāza))