How to say “physician” in 39 different 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.
- doctor/doɡˈtoɾ/ Spanish
- चिकित्सक/t͡ʃɪ.kɪt̪.sək/ Hindi
- ექიმმა[e̞kʰimmä] Georgian
- చికిత్సకుడు/ˈcikitˌsakuɖu/ Telugu
- حکیم/ɦə.kiːm/ Urdu
“physician” in Spanish: doctor · French: médecin · Hindi: चिकित्सक
It is commonest in English, where doctor is the 364th most used word.
Physician in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans dokter/ˈdɔk.tər/ medical doctor, physician #245
- Arabic طبيب/tˤa.biːb/ doctor, physician #444
- Armenian բժիշկ/bəˈʒiʃk/ doctor, physician #336
- Basque mediku/mediku/ doctor, physician #591
- Bengali চিকিৎসক/t͡ʃikit̪ʃok/ doctor, physician #2,291
- Bosnian doktor/dôktor/ doctor, physician #648
- Bulgarian лекар[ˈlɛkɐr] male physician, male doctor #813
- Catalan metge[ˈme.d͡ʒə] doctor, physician #765
- Chinese 醫生/i⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/ doctor; physician and surgeon; medical… #482
- Croatian doktor/dôktor/ doctor, physician #768
- Czech doktor[ˈdoktor] doctor, physician #612
- Dutch arts/ɑrts/ physician, doctor #1,515
- English doctor/ˈdɑktɚ/ A physician; a member of the medical… #364
- Esperanto kuracisto/kuraˈt͡sisto/ doctor, physician #658
- Finnish lääkäri/ˈlæːkæri/ physician, medical doctor, doctor #986
- French médecin/med.sɛ̃/ physician; doctor #804
- Galician doutor/ˈdowtoɾ/ doctor, physician #611
- Georgian ექიმმა[e̞kʰimmä] physician, doctor #1,336
- German arzt[aːɐ̯tst] doctor, physician #716
- Hebrew רופא/roˈfe(ʔ)/ medical doctor, physician #686
- Hindi चिकित्सक/t͡ʃɪ.kɪt̪.sək/ physician, doctor #1,533
- Hungarian doktor[ˈdoktor] doctor, physician #537
- Indonesian dokter/ˈdoktər/ doctor, a physician; a member of the medical… #354
- Italian medici/ˈmɛditʃɪ/ doctor, physician #2,461
- Latvian ārsts[āːrsts] doctor, physician #1,345
- Lithuanian gydytojas[¹ˈɡʲiːdʲiːtoːjɛs] doctor, physician #997
- Malay doktor/doktor/ doctor; physician #387
- Persian دکتر[d̪okʰʲ.t̪ʰóɹ] doctor, physician #180
- Polish doktorze/dɔkˈtɔ.ʐɛ/ physician, medical doctor #680
- Serbian doktor/dôktor/ doctor, physician #617
- Slovak doktor/dɔktɔr/ doctor, physician #231
- Slovenian zdravnik/zdraʋnìːk/ doctor, physician #388
- Spanish doctor/doɡˈtoɾ/ #402
- Swedish doktorn/ˈdɔktuːrn/ doctor; physician #787
- Tagalog doktor/dokˈtoɾ/ doctor; physician #710
- Tamil டாக்டர்/ɖɑːkʈɐɾ/ doctor, physician #237
- Telugu చికిత్సకుడు/ˈcikitˌsakuɖu/ a physician, doctor #1,388
- Turkish doktor/dokˈtoɾ/ doctor, physician #257
- Urdu حکیم/ɦə.kiːm/ physician, doctor #1,694
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.