doktor

Borrowed from Latin doctor.

doktor m (plural doktorë, definite doktori, definite plural doktorët, female 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

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 (“to 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 (“to teach”).

The verb sense is a semantic loan from English doctor

• IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/ [d̪okˈt̪oɾ̪]
• 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)

• Dr. — abbreviation
• Doc, dok

Borrowed from Spanish doctor.

• IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/ [d̪okˈtoɾ]
• 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

Inherited from Old Czech doktor, from Latin doctor.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoktor]

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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), 2008–2026

From Latin doctor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡdɐ/, [ˈd̥ʌɡ̊d̥ɐ], [ˈtɒ̽ktɒ̽]

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

Declension of doktor (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		doktor	doktorid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	doktori
genitive			doktorite
partitive		doktorit	doktoreid
illative		doktorisse	doktoritesse doktoreisse
inessive		doktoris	doktorites doktoreis
elative		doktorist	doktoritest doktoreist
allative		doktorile	doktoritele doktoreile
adessive		doktoril	doktoritel doktoreil
ablative		doktorilt	doktoritelt doktoreilt
translative		doktoriks	doktoriteks doktoreiks
terminative		doktorini	doktoriteni
essive		doktorina	doktoritena
abessive		doktorita	doktoriteta
comitative		doktoriga	doktoritega

• doktor in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Latin doctor.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoktor]

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• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

doktor (plural doktorok)

1. (colloquial) doctor, physician (a member of the medical profession)

   Synonym: orvos

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

• doktor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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 2026).

Ultimately from Latin doctor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔxtɔr/

doktor m (genitive singular doktors, nominative plural doktorar)

1. doctor (person with a university doctorate)

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 (plural doktor-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 [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 Turkish doktor, from French docteur.

doktor m

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 (“to teach”).

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

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doktor (Jawi spelling دوکتور, plural doktor-doktor or doktor²)

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 (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

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^{[3], [4], [5]}, 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^{transliteration, transcription}, 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
  • → 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

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

Regional synonyms of doktor (“doctor”)
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Dialect group	Dialect	Location	Words
Standard			doktor, doktór
Middle Polish			doktor, doktór
Greater Poland	Bory Tucholskie	Kłonowo	dochtór
	Central Greater Poland	Kalisz	dochtór
	Kuyavia	Bogusławice	dochtór
		Brześć Kujawski	dochtór
		Koneck	dochtór
		Płowce	dochtór
		Skulsk	dochtór
		Strzelno	dochtór
		Wieniec	dochtór
Masovia	Far Masovian	Przasnysz	dochtór
	Suwałki	Augustów Governorate	dochtór
Lesser Poland	Biecz	Ropczyce	dochtór
	Lasovia	Nisko County	dektur
		Pysznica	dektur
		Tarnobrzeg County	dektur
	Przemyśl	San river	dochtór
	Western Kraków	Smardzowice	dochtór
This table shows various regional forms in the Polish language.

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^[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “doktor”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[7] (in Polish)
• 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
• Jan Karłowicz (1900), “doktor”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 342
• doktor in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Ultimately from Latin doctor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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

dȍktor m anim (Cyrillic spelling до̏ктор)

1. doctor, physician
2. doctor, PhD

• dȍktorica
• (Serbia) dȍktōrka

Borrowed from Latin doctor.

• IPA^(key): /dɔktɔr/, [ˈdɔktɔr]
• Rhymes: -ɔktɔr
• Hyphenation: dok‧tor

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.

Ultimately from Latin doctor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• 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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /dokˈtoɾ/ [d̪okˈt̪oɾ]
• 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, 2018

From Ottoman Turkish دوقتور (doktor), from French docteur, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to 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^[8] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 610

Ultimately from Latin doctor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

doktór

1. doctor