"Bob is a doctor."

Translation: بوب دُكتور.

[Bryan2701]

I learn the word طبيب for doctor in a book. Are they the same?

[CarstenLu]

In my understanding, دكتور is more like a title (e.g., also for scientific doctors) and طبيب is a medical doctor.

[MokLV0]

"Tabeeb" means medical doctor (a.k.a. physician), while "Doktoor" is for doctors in general, either a medical doctor or one holding a PhD.

[deactivated user]

Yes, but Egyptians like to use foreign words.

[lubukl]

Yes

[Maan573633]

No there is not word like this in our language it is only طبيب

[ilia3006]

But where is the meaning of "is" and "a"????

[Bluey114025]

In arabic, there is no is or a.

[kaet]

The Semitic languages (among others) don't use an explicit copula ("is" here) in the present tense (and even in other tenses tend to co-opt another verb), nor do they have an explicit indefinite article ("a"/"an").

[AniOhevYayin]

My beginner understanding is that SMA works similarly to Israeli Hebrew הוא in some nominal sentences called "equative" (in which both subject and predicate are definite): http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/sites/llf.cnrs.fr/files/evenements/colloques/DG_copula.pdf However, there is often "zero copula" situations and actual dialects of Arabic seem to differ on this matter. Examples of zero copula: Matthew Aldrich, Arabic vs Arabic: A Dialect Sampler, p. 55.

[Daniel543841]

To Ali. 11. 16. '20. This might be needed in one language, but not, in another.

[Rikki299298]

The word should be طبيب

[Hassan2021]

بوب دكتور it means بوب هو يكون دكتور we can make question:
من هو بوب ؟ بوب (هو) دكتور

[Hassan2021]

better to use طبيب here because it is a job not a title.. and its easy to understand it .. like بوب أستاذ وزيد طبيب

[Maan573633]

Doctor طبيب not دكتور

[Away54]

دكتور في طبيب : أستاذ في طبيب : Doctor of Medicine (MD).

The دكتور must not be Arabic faSiHa but is a borrowed word from English. Whilst, طبيب it is Arabic.

[09mng]

Should be used طبيب

[AayanAhmed14]

Why it is bob doctor?