profesor

Learned borrowing from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /pɾofeˈsoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesores)

1. teacher (a person who teaches)

   Synonyms: maestru, maestra

Derived from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m anim (female equivalent profesorka, relational adjective profesorský)

1. professor

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

• professor (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /pɾofeˈsoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesores, feminine profesora, feminine plural profesoras)

1. teacher
2. professor

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

profesor

Wikipedia ^id

From Dutch professor, from Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈfɛ.sɔr/
• Rhymes: -sɔr, -ɔr
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor

2. professor (the most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution)

   Synonyms: guru besar, mahaguru

   Hypernym: dosen

• “profesor” 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.

From Dutch professor, from Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

profesor

1. professor

• ꦒꦸꦫꦸꦲꦒꦼꦁ (guru ageng)

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

profesor

Wikipedia ^ms

Borrowed from English professor, from Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

• IPA^(key): /pro.fe.so(r)/
• Rhymes: -o(r)

profesor (Jawi spelling ڤروفيسور, plural profesor-profesor, informal 1st possessive profesorku, 2nd possessive profesormu, 3rd possessive profesornya)

1. professor (the most senior rank for an academic at a university)

   profesor emeritus ― honorary title for a retired professor

   • 2018 April 12, Hashim Yaacob, “Kekalkan profesor cemerlang di universiti [Keep brilliant professor(s) in university]”, in Utusan Malaysia‎, archived from the original on 12 April 2018:

     Oleh kerana kerja-kerja penyelidikan awal seseorang profesor itu akan terus dirujuk beberapa tahun kemudiannya, maka universiti akan terus mendapat manfaat melalui peningkatan ranking universiti, walaupun seseorang profesor itu telah bersara.

     Since the preliminary research work of a professor will continue to be referred to a few years later, therefore the university will continue to gain benefit through the improvement of its ranking, even if a particular professor has already retired.

• pensyarah (“lecturer”)

• profesor madya (“associate professor”)

• doktor (“a person who has attained a doctorate”)

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

profesor

Wikipedia ^pl

Learned borrowing from Latin professor.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in the 16th century.^[5]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɔr
• Syllabification: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m pers (female equivalent profesor or profesorka, diminutive profesorek, related adjective profesorski, abbreviation prof.)

1. professor (the most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution)
2. teacher (an educator in secondary school)

   Synonym: nauczyciel

3. (obsolete) old hand, master

profesor f (male equivalent profesor)

1. female equivalent of profesor (“professor”) (the most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution)

   Synonym: profesorka

2. female equivalent of profesor (“teacher”) (an educator in secondary school)

   Synonym: profesorka

• → Kashubian: profesór

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), profesor is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 15 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 142 times, making it the 420th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

• profesor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• profesor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “profesor”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “profesor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “profesor”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 1009

• професор (profesor) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French professeur or German Professor or Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /proˈfe.sor/, /pro.feˈsor/

• Audio (female voice):

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• Rhymes: -esor, -or
• Hyphenation: po‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesori, feminine equivalent profesoară)

1. professor
2. teacher

• educator
• învățător

• IPA^(key): /prǒfesor/

pròfesor m (Cyrillic spelling про̀фесор)

1. professor

• IPA^(key): /prɔféːsɔr/

profẹ̑sor m anim

1. professor
2. teacher

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Learned borrowing from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /pɾofeˈsoɾ/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesores, feminine profesora, feminine plural profesoras)

1. professor (a faculty member)

   profesores y personal ― faculty and staff

2. (especially Spain) teacher

   Synonym: maestro

• → Bikol Central: propesor
• → Tagalog: propesor

• “profesor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Learned borrowing from Latin professor (compare Malay profesor).

• IPA^(key): /proˈfɛ.sɔr/
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor

1. professor

Learned borrowing from Latin professor (compare Italian professore).

profesor m (plural profesori) or profesor m (plural profesuri)

1. teacher
2. professor, lecturer

• Audio:

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profesor m

1. professor