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Debit in accounting is Debit, how come the abbreviation becomes Dr? Is it a mistake it should be De?

No mistake.

Dr on the debit side, Cr on the credit side.

DR: debit record

CR: credit recrod

Vocabulary

debit

English [?deb?t ]? American [?deb?t]?

n. to debit, debit; debit

v. to debit (an account), debit; to withdraw (from a bank account)