dokter

From Dutch dokter, from doctor, from Middle Dutch doctoor, from Latin doctor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔk.tər/

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dokter (plural dokters, diminutive doktertjie)

1. medical doctor, physician

   Synonym: arts

• snydokter

From doctor, assimilated to Dutch phonetics through common use, from Middle Dutch doctoor, from Latin doctor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔk.tər/

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• Hyphenation: dok‧ter

dokter m (plural dokters or doktoren, diminutive doktertje n, feminine doktores)

1. doctor (physician, medical doctor)

• arts
• geneesheer, geneesvrouw

• Afrikaans: dokter
• Jersey Dutch: dâktor
• Negerhollands: doktu, dokter
• → Caribbean Hindustani: dáktar
• → Caribbean Javanese: dhokter
• → Indonesian: dokter
  • → Balinese: dokter
  • → Javanese: dhokter
  • → Minangkabau: doto, dotor
  • → Nias: doto
  • → Sundanese: dokter
  • → Ternate: dokter
• → Papiamentu: dòkter, dòchter, dòktu, dokter
• → Sranan Tongo: datra
  • → Aukan: dataa
  • → Kari'na: datra
  • → Trió: ratra

• doctor

Borrowed from Dutch dokter (“doctor (physician, medical doctor)”), from doctor, from Middle Dutch doctoor, from Latin doctor (“teacher, instructor”). Doublet of doktor.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdoktər/ [ˈdok̚.t̪ər]

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• Rhymes: -oktər
• Syllabification: dok‧ter

doktêr (plural dokter-dokter or para dokter)

1. doctor, a physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured

   Synonym: (uncommon) tabib

• doktor (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• → Balinese: dokter
• → Javanese: dhokter
• → Minangkabau: doto, dotor
• → Nias: doto
• → Sundanese: dokter
• → Ternate: dokter

• “dokter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Indonesian dokter, from Dutch dokter, from doctor, from Middle Dutch doctoor, from Latin doctor (“teacher”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈdokteɾ]

dokter

1. doctor, physician

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29