profesor

profesór m

1. professor

• “profesor”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[3], 1980

Learned borrowing from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /pɾofeˈsoɾ/ [pɾo.feˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m sg (feminine singular profesora, masculine plural profesores, feminine plural profesores)

1. teacher (someone who teaches)

   Synonyms: maestru, maestra

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “profesor”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “profesor”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Derived from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprofɛsor]

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• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m anim (female equivalent profesorka, relational adjective profesorský)

1. professor

• “profesor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “profesor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• professor (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese professor.

• IPA^(key): /pɾofeˈsoɾ/ [pɾo.feˈs̺oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesores, feminine profesora, feminine plural profesoras)

1. teacher
2. professor

• “profesor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Dutch professor, from Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈfɛ.sɔr/
• Rhymes: -sɔr, -ɔr
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor

2. professor (the most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution)

   Synonyms: guru besar, mahaguru

   Hypernym: dosen

• “profesor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Dutch professor, from Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

profesor

1. professor

• ꦒꦸꦫꦸꦲꦒꦼꦁ (guru ageng)

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profesor m (Hebrew spelling פרופ׳יסור, feminine profesora)^[1]

1. professor (teacher)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén‐Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[4], page 114:

     Mi profesor de latino i grego ya tinía mas ochenta anyos kuando fue mi profesor en mis últimos anyos de liseo.

     My Latin and Greek teacher was already more [than] eighty-years-old when he was my teacher in my last years of high school.

Borrowed from English professor, from Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

• IPA^(key): /pro.fe.so(r)/
• Rhymes: -o(r)

profesor (Jawi spelling ڤروفيسور, plural profesor-profesor or profesor²)

1. professor (the most senior rank for an academic at a university)

   profesor emeritus ― honorary title for a retired professor

   • 2018 April 12, Hashim Yaacob, “Kekalkan profesor cemerlang di universiti [Keep brilliant professor(s) in university]”, in Utusan Malaysia‎^[5], archived from the original on 12 April 2018:

     Oleh kerana kerja-kerja penyelidikan awal seseorang profesor itu akan terus dirujuk beberapa tahun kemudiannya, maka universiti akan terus mendapat manfaat melalui peningkatan ranking universiti, walaupun seseorang profesor itu telah bersara.

     Since the preliminary research work of a professor will continue to be referred to a few years later, therefore the university will continue to gain benefit through the improvement of its ranking, even if a particular professor has already retired.

• pensyarah (“lecturer”)

• profesor madya (“associate professor”)

• doktor (“a person who has attained a doctorate”)

Learned borrowing from Latin professor.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in the 16th century.^[5]

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɔr
• Syllabification: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m pers (female equivalent profesor or profesorka, diminutive profesorek, related adjective profesorski, abbreviation prof.)

1. professor (the most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution)
2. teacher (an educator in secondary school)

   Synonym: nauczyciel

3. (obsolete) old hand, master

profesor f (male equivalent profesor)

1. female equivalent of profesor (“professor”) (the most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution)

   Synonym: profesorka

2. female equivalent of profesor (“teacher”) (an educator in secondary school)

   Synonym: profesorka

• → Kashubian: profesór

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), profesor is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 15 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 142 times, making it the 420th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

• profesor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• profesor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “profesor”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “profesor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “profesor”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 1009

• професор (profesor) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French professeur or German Professor or Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /proˈfe.sor/, /pro.feˈsor/

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• Rhymes: -esor, -or
• Hyphenation: po‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesori, feminine equivalent profesoară)

1. professor
2. teacher

• educator
• învățător

• “profesor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• IPA^(key): /prǒfesor/

pròfesor m anim (Cyrillic spelling про̀фесор)

1. professor

• IPA^(key): /prɔféːsɔr/

profẹ̑sor m anim

1. professor
2. teacher

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	profésor
gen. sing.	profésorja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	profésor	profésorja	profésorji
genitive (rodȋlnik)	profésorja	profésorjev	profésorjev
dative (dajȃlnik)	profésorju	profésorjema	profésorjem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	profésorja	profésorja	profésorje
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	profésorju	profésorjih	profésorjih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	profésorjem	profésorjema	profésorji

• profe (clipping)

Learned borrowing from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /pɾofeˈsoɾ/ [pɾo.feˈsoɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor m (plural profesores, feminine profesora, feminine plural profesoras)

1. professor (a faculty member)

   profesores y personal ― faculty and staff

   • 2019 February 17, Francisco Martínez Hoyos, “10 idiomas que se crearon de la nada”, in La Vanguardia‎^[6]:

     El na’vi fue creación del profesor de Lingüística Paul Frommer por encargo de James Cameron, director de la película.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (especially Spain) teacher

   Synonym: maestro

• → Central Bikol: propesor
• → Tagalog: propesor

• “profesor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Learned borrowing from Latin professor (compare Malay profesor).

• IPA^(key): /proˈfɛ.sɔr/
• Hyphenation: pro‧fe‧sor

profesor (Sundanese script ᮕ᮪ᮛᮧᮖᮦᮞᮧᮛ᮪)

1. professor

Learned borrowing from Latin professor (compare Italian professore).

profesor m (plural profesori) or profesor m (plural profesuri)

1. teacher
2. professor, lecturer

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profesor m

1. professor