doktor

doktor m (plural doktorë, definite doktori, definite plural doktorët); feminine equivalent doktoreshë

1. a male doctor

Internationalism; ultimately from Latin doctor.

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doktor (definite accusative doktoru, plural doktorlar)

1. doctor (a person who has attained a doctorate)

   tarixi elmlər doktoru ― a PhD (doctor) in history

2. physician

   Synonyms: həkim, təbib

• Dr. — abbreviation
• Doc, dok

Borrowed from Spanish doctor.

• IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/
• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

doktór (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜍ᜔)

1. doctor; physician

   Synonyms: mediko, parabulong

2. (dated) act of tinkering with

   Synonym: ano

3. (dated) act of fiddling with

   Synonym: kuyan

Borrowed from English doctor, from Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”).

• IPA^(key): /dok.tor/
• (Kedayan) IPA^(key): /dok.to/

doktor

1. doctor (physician)
2. (academic) doctor, person who has attained a doctorate

• doktor bedah (“surgeon”)
• doktor gigi (“dentist”)
• doktor pakar (“specialist”)

Borrowed from Spanish doctor, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”).

The verb sense is a semantic loan from English doctor

• IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/
• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

doktór (feminine doktora, Badlit spelling ᜇᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)

1. doctor
   1. physician
   2. a person who has attained a doctorate
2. veterinarian

doktór (Badlit spelling ᜇᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)

1. to doctor (alter or falsify a document)

Inherited from Old Czech doktor, from Latin doctor.

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• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

doktor m anim (female equivalent doktorka)

1. doctor, physician

   Synonyms: lékař, léčitel

2. doctor, PhD

• “doktor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “doktor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “doktor”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From Latin doctor, from doceō (“to teach”) +‎ -tor +‎ agent noun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡdɐ/, ,

doktor c (singular definite doktoren, plural indefinite doktorer)

1. doctor (a physician)
2. doctor (a person who has attained a doctorate)

• (physician): læge

• “doktor” in Den Danske Ordbog

German Doktor. Doublet of tohter.

doktor (genitive doktori, partitive doktorit)

1. doctor (person who has obtained a doctorate)
2. doctor (physician)

   Synonym: arst

3. Doctor (title)

   Synonym: dr

• doktor in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

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• Hyphenation: dok‧tor
• Rhymes: -or

doktor (plural doktorok)

1. (folksy) doctor (physician)

   Synonym: orvos

2. doctor (a person who has attained a doctorate)

• doktor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• doktor in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔxtɔr/

doktor m (genitive singular doktors, nominative plural doktorar)

1. doctor (person with a university doctorate)

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Borrowed from Dutch doctor (“doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)”), from Middle Dutch doctor, from Latin doctor (“teacher, instructor”). Doublet of dokter.

• IPA^(key): /dɔk.tɔr/
• Hyphenation: dok‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

doktor

1. doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay doktor.

• “doktor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Turkish doktor, from French docteur.

doktor m (Latin spelling)

1. doctor

   Synonym: mediko

Borrowed from English doctor, from Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”).

• (Standard Malaysian) IPA^(key): /doktor/,
• Rhymes: -tor, -or

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doktor (Jawi spelling دوکتور, plural doktor-doktor, informal 1st possessive doktorku, 2nd possessive doktormu, 3rd possessive doktornya)

1. (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore) doctor; physician

   Synonyms: (Indonesian Malay) dokter, tabib, bomor

2. doctor (person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university)

• The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian doktor.
• Both Standard Malaysian and Singaporean Malay plus Indonesian lists "person who has attained a doctorate" sense. However, Indonesian uses the cognate dokter, for the physician sense.

• “doktor” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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Wikipedia ^no

From Latin doctor.

doktor m (definite singular doktoren, indefinite plural doktorer, definite plural doktorene)

1. doctor (physician)
2. Doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)

• (physician): lege

• doktorgrad
• heksedoktor
• æresdoktor

• “doktor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin doctor.

doktor m (definite singular doktoren, indefinite plural doktorar, definite plural doktorane)

1. Doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)

• doktorgrad
• heksedoktor
• æresdoktor

• “doktor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin doctor.^[1] Compare Old Polish doktor.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈdoktor/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈdoktor/

doktor m pers (relational adjective doktorský)

1. (Ecclesiastic) teacher
2. doctor (person holding a doctorate)
3. scholar
4. (religion) Honorary title of church dignitaries.

• Czech: doktor

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “doktor”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Learned borrowing from Latin doctor.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in c. 1420. Compare Old Czech doktor.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /dɔktɔ(ː)r/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /dɔktɔr/, /dɔktor/

doktor m animacy unattested (related adjective doktorowski)

1. scholar (learned person; especially an expert in the Bible and theology, in Christianity sometimes the official title of theological writers)
   • 1874-1891 [c. 1420], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎^{, ,} , volume XXIV, page 86:

     Wszelky mysztrz nawczony, wszelky doctor albo pyszarz w crolewszthwe nebeszkem (omnis scriba doctus in regno coelorum Mat 13, 52) rowni yeszth oczczw czeladnemw

     [Wszelki mistrz nauczony, wszelki doktor albo pisarz w krolewstwie niebieskim (omnis scriba doctus in regno coelorum Mat 13, 52) rowny jest oćcu czeladnemu]

   • Beginning of the 15th century, Łukasz z Wielkiego Koźmina, Kazania gnieźnieńskie‎, Krakow, page 11b:

     Ten tho velebny doctor, gemusczy Bedza (leg. Beda) dzegø, mouiy

     [Ten to wielebny doktor, jemużci Beda dzieją, mowi]

2. (attested in Masovia) doctor (person holding a doctorate)
   • 1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 82:

     Yvsz prawa polska szą dokonana, yasz wykladana przes mystrza y doctora Swanthoslawa s Woczyeschyna, cvstosscha kosczola warszewskyego swąnthego Iana

     [Już prawa polska są dokonana, jaż wykładana przez mistrza i doktora Świętosława s Wocieszyna, kustosza kościoła warszewskiego Świętego Jana]

• Polish: doktor, doktór (regional or colloquial)
  • → Kashubian: doktór
• Silesian: dŏchtōr

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “doktor”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

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• doktór (regional or colloquial)

Inherited from Old Polish doktor.

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• Rhymes: -ɔktɔr
• Syllabification: dok‧tor

doktor m pers (female equivalent doktor or doktorka, diminutive doktorek, abbreviation dr)

1. (colloquial, medicine) physician, medical doctor

   Synonyms: eskulap, lekarz, medyk

2. doctor (person holding a doctorate)
3. (obsolete) doctor, scholar

   Synonym: uczony

• → Kashubian: doktór

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), doktor is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 52 times in news, 15 times in essays, 22 times in fiction, and 39 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 131 times, making it the 460th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

doktor f (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial, medicine) female equivalent of doktor (“physician, medical doctor”)

   Synonym: doktorka

2. female equivalent of doktor (“doctor”) (person holding a doctorate)

   Synonym: doktorka

• doktor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• doktor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “doktor”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “DOKTOR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 18.03.2016
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “doktor”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “doktor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “doktor”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 495
• doktor in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

• IPA^(key): /dôktor/
• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

dȍktor m (Cyrillic spelling до̏ктор)

1. doctor, physician
2. doctor, PhD

• dȍktorica
• (Serbia) dȍktōrka

Borrowed from Latin doctor.

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doktor m pers (female equivalent doktorka, relational adjective doktorský, diminutive doktorík or doktorko, augmentative doktorisko)

1. doctor, physician

   Synonyms: lekár, liečiteľ

2. doctor, PhD

• doktorový

• (Abbreviations) d:r, dr, dr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔkˌtɔr/

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doktor c

1. doctor; physician
2. doctor; person who has achieved a graduate degree such as a Ph.D. or a Th.D.

• (physician): läkare

• → Finnish: tohtori

• doktor in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed from Spanish doctor (“doctor”), from Latin doctor (“teacher”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: dok‧tor

doktór (feminine doktora, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)

1. doctor; physician

   Synonyms: manggagamot, mediko

2. doctorate degree

   Synonym: doktorado

3. (colloquial) falsification

• “doktor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Ottoman Turkish دوقتور (doktor), from French docteur, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”). Cognate with Azerbaijani doktor.

• IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/

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• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

doktor (definite accusative doktoru, plural doktorlar)

1. doctor

• hekim
• tabip

• → Ladino: doktor

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوقتور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 610

doktór

1. doctor