"Sam is a doctor."

Translation: سام دُكتور.

[AniOhevYayin]

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]

[Quathia]

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.

[yamenraies]

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

[AnCatDubh]

What’s the difference between that and طبيب?

[Abdallah483556]

Nothing, just طبيب is Arabic and دكتور is "not"

[AniOhevYayin]

Can someone help us with this question?

[GiorgioBaz]

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

[meromada]

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

[angellysa007]

So, how to call someone Doctor Sam? Instead of saying Sam is Doctor

[Hsn626796]

Doktóor Sam دكتور سام

[AhmadLaM]

If you wanna call him, simply say it in the same order as in English, "دكتور سام"

[Abdallah483556]

Like in English doctor Sam

[mariamelawady]

That would be دكتور سام just like in English :)

[AnUnicorn]

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.