"Sam is a doctor."
Translation:سام دُكتور.
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I read through the discussion here. My question: In English the name Sam can be for both males and females (short for Samantha). If Sam here were a female doctor, how would that change دُكتور ? Thanks. Also, is this English calque as common as الطبيب? Thanks. [I got the latter word off of google translate]
If Sam were female, she would be a دُكْتورة. The word دكتور can be used for academic doctors as well as medical ones, طَبيب is only used for medical doctors. Both are quite common.
Sam here is male ..and I think no one named a girl sam befor in arabic.. (samia\سامية) is for female . And yes (الطبيب) that we call the doctor in arabic sometimes .. It came from الطب .. You are welcome ..اهلاً
طبيب = physician دكتور= doctor دكتور is said to both physician and academic professors But generally if u want to say physician u can say either طبيب or دكتور if you are referring to a man. If you are talking about a woman then طبيبة/دكتورة
Hope this helps
the other one is from the literal latin alphabet and was more of a title in the beginning. طبيب is more like healer before latin titles were introduced to arabic culture. Now they mean the same because you need to be a doctor to heal people
If you wanna call him, simply say it in the same order as in English, "دكتور سام"
I assume you'd put a يا in front to indicate that you're addressing Dr. Sam, so:
يا دكتور(ة) سَم
depending on if it's a Dr. Samuel or a Dr. Samantha.
Arabic does have three noun cases--Nominative, Accusative, and Genitive--but many loanwords borrowed into Arabic do not decline.