How to say “physician” in 39 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Persian, where دکتر is the 180th most used word.
- Afrikaans dokter medical doctor, physician #245
- Arabic طبيب doctor, physician #444
- Armenian բժիշկ doctor, physician #336
- Basque mediku doctor, physician #591
- Bengali চিকিৎসক doctor, physician #2,291
- Bosnian doktor doctor, physician #648
- Bulgarian лекар male physician, male doctor #813
- Catalan metge doctor, physician #765
- Chinese 醫生 doctor; physician and surgeon; medical… #482
- Croatian doktor doctor, physician #768
- Czech doktor doctor, physician #612
- Dutch arts physician, doctor #1,515
- English doctor A physician; a member of the medical… #364
- Esperanto kuracisto doctor, physician #658
- Finnish lääkäri physician, medical doctor, doctor #986
- French médecin physician; doctor #804
- Galician doutor doctor, physician #611
- Georgian ექიმმა physician, doctor #1,336
- German arzt doctor, physician #716
- Hebrew רופא medical doctor, physician #686
- Hindi चिकित्सक physician, doctor #1,533
- Hungarian doktor doctor, physician #537
- Indonesian dokter doctor, a physician; a member of the medical… #354
- Italian medici doctor, physician #2,461
- Latvian ārsts doctor, physician #1,345
- Lithuanian gydytojas doctor, physician #997
- Malay doktor doctor; physician #387
- Persian دکتر doctor, physician #180
- Polish doktorze physician, medical doctor #680
- Serbian doktor doctor, physician #617
- Slovak doktor doctor, physician #231
- Slovenian zdravnik doctor, physician #388
- Spanish doctor #402
- Swedish doktorn doctor; physician #787
- Tagalog doktor doctor; physician #710
- Tamil டாக்டர் doctor, physician #237
- Telugu చికిత్సకుడు a physician, doctor #1,388
- Turkish doktor doctor, physician #257
- Urdu حکیم physician, doctor #1,694
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.