أستاذ (ustaad) — "professor" in Modern Standard Arabic

أستاذ

ustaad

professor

Topic
education
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"professor" in the other dialects

Egyptian Arabic

إسْتاذ جامْعة

istēz jēm3a

Egyptian Arabic

بْروفيْسور

brufesūr

Levantine Arabic

أُسْتاذ جامْعة

ustāz jām3a

Moroccan Darija

پْروْف

Moroccan Darija

أُسْتاذ

أستاذ in a sentence

Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.

أدرك الدكتور نبيل أستاذ التاريخ البالغ من العمر اثنين وأربعين عاما بخوف شديد أن الموعد النهائي لدفع رسوم النشر قد حل ومحفظته فارغة تماما.

adraka ad-duktur nabil ustadh at-tarikh al-baligh min al-umr ithnayn wa-arba'in aaman bi-khawfin shadidin anna al-mawid an-niha'iy li-daf'i rusum an-nashri qad halla wa-mahfazatahu farighatun tamaman.

Dr. Nabil, a forty-two-year-old history professor, realized with extreme fear that the final deadline to pay the publishing fees had arrived, and his wallet was completely empty.

from A Race Against Time in Downtown

ثم اقترب الأستاذ حسن، زميلها، ماداً يده بحرارة: "صباح الخير يا ليلى، هل أنتِ ذاهبة إلى اجتماع الوفد الياباني؟"

Thumma iqtaraba al-ustādh Ḥasan, zamīluhā, māddan yadahu bi-ḥarārah: "Ṣabāḥ al-khayr yā Layla, hal anti dhāhibatun ilā ijtima' al-wafdi al-yābānī?"

Then Professor Hassan, her colleague, approached, extending his hand warmly: "Good morning, Layla, are you going to the Japanese delegation meeting?"

from The Urgent Greeting: Layla at the National Museum

أهلاً بك يا أستاذ أمين.

Ahlan bika ya Ustadh Amin.

Welcome, Professor Amin.

from Morning Greetings at the Library

صباح الخير، أستاذ دكتور كمال، أتمنى أن تكونوا بخير اليوم.

Sabah al-khayr, ustadh duktur Kamal, atamanna an takunu bi-khayrin al-yawm.

Good morning, Professor Dr. Kamal, I hope you are well today.

from Greetings and a Meeting in the Realm of Knowledge

قالت لزميلها عمر: صباح الخير يا أستاذ!

Qalat li-zamiliha Umar: Sabah al-Khayr ya Ustad!

She said to her colleague Omar: "Good morning, Professor!"

from Morning Greetings at the University

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