طَبِيب

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish tabip on the card

  a physician, in formal use; the everyday word is doktor

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian طبیب tabib

  a physician (archaic, literary)

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu طبیب tabīb on the card

  a practitioner of the old Greek-Arabic (Unani) medicine, as against the ḍākṭar trained in European medicine

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Indonesian tabib on the card

  a traditional healer, like a dukun; also, now rarely, a doctor

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay tabib in Jawi script: طبيب on the card

  a physician, one skilled in healing

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Swahili tabibu on the card

  a doctor, a physician

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)