Translation of Turkish word "doktor" to English
doktor
/doktoɾ/
Meaning
NounA physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
How to use
Borrowed from French (docteur). Used as a title directly before a name (Doktor Ali). Frequently used in daily conversational Turkish to build natural sentence structures.
🇬🇧 English
doctor
Example
Doktor sağlıklı olduğumu söyledi.
The doctor said I'm healthy.
Doktor elimi iyileştirmeme yardım etti.
The doctor helped me heal my hand.
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Common phrases
- çok doktor— very
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Frequency rank: #254 in Turkish
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The Turkish word "doktor" means "doctor" in English.
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