beginner

English

Noun

beginner (plural beginners)

1. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

   I'm pretty new at learning Japanese, I'm just a beginner.

2. Someone who sets (or puts) something in motion

   The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:beginner

Translations

someone who just recently started

• Arabic: مُبْتَدِئ (ar) (mubtadi') m
• Bulgarian: начинаещ (bg) (nachinaješt) m, новак (bg) (novak) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初學者 (cmn), 初学者 (cmn) (chūxuézhě)

• Czech: začátečník (cs) m
• Dutch: beginner (nl) m
• Estonian: algaja (et)
• Finnish: aloittelija (fi), vasta-alkaja (fi)
• French: débutant (fr) m
• German: Anfänger (de) m, Anfängerin (de) f, Anfänger (de) pl
• Hindi: शुरुआत (hi) (śuru'āt)
• Hungarian: kezdő (hu)
• Japanese: 初心者 (ja) (しょしんしゃ, shoshinsha), 初学者 (ja) (しょがくしゃ, shogakusha), ビギナー (ja) (biginā), 新参 (ja) (しんざん, shinzan)

• Jèrriais: c'menchant m
• Korean: 초심자 (ko) (chosimja) (初心者 (ko)), 초보자 (ko) (choboja)
• Persian: مبتدی (fa), تازه‌کار (fa)
• Portuguese: novato m, iniciante, principiante
• Romanian: începător (ro) m, începătoare (ro) f
• Russian: начинающий (ru) (načinájuščij) m, новичок (ru) (novičók) m
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-tòiseachaidh (gd) m
• Spanish: principiante (es), iniciado (es)
• Swedish: nybörjare (sv) c
• Thai: ผู้เริ่มเรียน (th), มือใหม่ (th)
• Vietnamese: người bắt đầu (vi), người mới học (vi)
• Volapük: (male or female) priman (vo), (male) hipriman (vo), (female) jipriman (vo)

someone who sets something in motion

• Dutch: starter (nl)
• Estonian: alustaja (et)

• Finnish: avaaja (fi), aloittaja (fi), alkuunpanija (fi)
• Spanish: iniciador

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: מתחיל (matkhyl) m, מתחילה (matkhila) f (1)
• Icelandic: byrjandi m (1)
• Indonesian: pemula
• Interlingua: comenciator, comenciante, initiator, initiante
• Latin: inceptor, initiator
• Volapük: beginan

External links

• beginner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• beginner in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• benigner