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Same as in English, since both languages got it from the same place.
Only with a Yiddish accent, it would sound more like "dawktawr".
Straight from German.
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"Dokter" in Yiddish refers to a physician.
"Doktor" in Yiddish refers to person holding a doctorate degree (Ph. D.)
The stress is on the first syllable, and in speech the distinction between the two words is usually lost, but if you wish to use the word correctly in written Yiddish, now you know how! Source: Uriel Weinreich, Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary (NY: YIVO: 1968).
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