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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɪˈɡɪnə/
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• US: /bəˈɡɪnɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: B IH0 G IH1 N ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).

153 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fillestar — someone who just recently started
• Arabic: مُبْتَدِئ (mubtadiʔ) — someone who just recently started
• Arabic: مُبْتَدِئَة (mubtadiʔa) — someone who just recently started
• Armenian: սկսնակ (sksnak) — someone who just recently started
• Basque: hasiberri — someone who just recently started
• Belarusian: пачатко́вец (pačatkóvjec) — someone who just recently started
• Belarusian: нава́к (navák) — someone who just recently started
• Belarusian: нава́чка (naváčka) — someone who just recently started
• Belarusian: навачо́к (navačók) — someone who just recently started
• Belarusian: навічо́к (navičók) — someone who just recently started
• Bengali: নবিস (nobiś) — someone who just recently started
• Bulgarian: начина́ещ (načináešt) — someone who just recently started
• Bulgarian: наче́ващ m нова́к (načévašt) — someone who just recently started
• Catalan: novençà — someone who just recently started
• Catalan: novici — someone who just recently started
• Catalan: novell — someone who just recently started
• Catalan: principiant — someone who just recently started
• Chinese Mandarin: 初學者 /初学者 (chūxuézhě) — someone who just recently started
• Chinese Mandarin: 新手 (xīnshǒu) — someone who just recently started
• Czech: nováček — someone who just recently started
• Czech: začátečník — someone who just recently started
• Czech: začátečnice — someone who just recently started
• Danish: begynder — someone who just recently started
• Dutch: beginneling — someone who just recently started
• Dutch: beginnelinge — someone who just recently started
• Dutch: beginner — someone who just recently started
• Esperanto: komencanto — someone who just recently started
• Esperanto: novulo — someone who just recently started
• Estonian: algaja — someone who just recently started
• Finnish: aloittelija — someone who just recently started
• Finnish: keltanokka — someone who just recently started
• Finnish: mopo — someone who just recently started
• Finnish: noviisi — someone who just recently started
• Finnish: vasta-alkaja — someone who just recently started
• French: débutant — someone who just recently started
• French: débutante — someone who just recently started
• Galician: principiante — someone who just recently started
• Galician: novato — someone who just recently started
• Galician: novata — someone who just recently started
• Georgian: ახალბედა (axalbeda) — someone who just recently started
• Georgian: დამწყები (damc̣q̇ebi) — someone who just recently started
• German: Anfänger — someone who just recently started
• German: Anfängerin — someone who just recently started
• German: Neuling — someone who just recently started
• Greek: αρχάριος (archários) — someone who just recently started
• Greek: πρωτάρης (protáris) — someone who just recently started
• Hebrew: מַתְחִיל (matkhíl) — someone who just recently started
• Hebrew: טִירוֹן (tirón) — someone who just recently started
• Hindi: नौसिखिया (nausikhiyā) — someone who just recently started
• Hungarian: kezdő — someone who just recently started
• Hungarian: újonc — someone who just recently started
• Indonesian: pemula — someone who just recently started
• Italian: principiante — someone who just recently started
• Italian: debuttante — someone who just recently started
• Italian: novizio — someone who just recently started
• Italian: esordiente — someone who just recently started
• Italian: novellino — someone who just recently started
• Italian: neofita — someone who just recently started
• Japanese: ビギナー (biginā) — someone who just recently started
• Japanese: 新参 (shinzan) — someone who just recently started
• Japanese: 初学者 (shogakusha) — someone who just recently started
• Japanese: 初心者 (shoshinsha) — someone who just recently started
• Kalmyk: эклгч (eklgç) — someone who just recently started
• Korean: 초심자 (chosimja) — someone who just recently started
• Korean: 초보자 (choboja) — someone who just recently started
• Ladino: adjami — someone who just recently started
• Ladino: empesante — someone who just recently started
• Latin: inceptor — someone who just recently started
• Latin: tīrō — someone who just recently started
• Latvian: iesācējs — someone who just recently started
• Latvian: iesācēja — someone who just recently started
• Lithuanian: naujokas — someone who just recently started
• Macedonian: почетник (početnik) — someone who just recently started
• Māori: ihu hūpē — someone who just recently started
• Māori: ika tauhou — someone who just recently started
• Māori: tauhou — someone who just recently started
• Nepali: नयाँ (nayā̃) — someone who just recently started
• Norman: c'menchant — someone who just recently started
• Norwegian Bokmål: nybegynner — someone who just recently started
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nybegynnar — someone who just recently started
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nybyrjar — someone who just recently started
• Iranian Persian: مُبْتَدی (mobtadi) — someone who just recently started
• Iranian Persian: نُوچِه (nowče) — someone who just recently started
• Iranian Persian: تازِهکار (tâze-kâr) — someone who just recently started
• Iranian Persian: نُوآموز (now'âmuz) — someone who just recently started
• Plautdietsch: Aunfenja — someone who just recently started
• Polish: adept — someone who just recently started
• Polish: adeptka — someone who just recently started
• Polish: debiutant — someone who just recently started
• Polish: nowicjusz — someone who just recently started
• Polish: nowicjuszka — someone who just recently started
• Polish: początkujący — someone who just recently started
• Portuguese: calouro — someone who just recently started
• Portuguese: iniciante — someone who just recently started
• Portuguese: novato — someone who just recently started
• Portuguese: principiante — someone who just recently started
• Romanian: debutant — someone who just recently started
• Romanian: începător — someone who just recently started
• Romanian: începătoare — someone who just recently started
• Russian: дебюта́нт (debjutánt) — someone who just recently started
• Russian: дебюта́нтка (debjutántka) — someone who just recently started
• Russian: начина́ющий (načinájuščij) — someone who just recently started
• Russian: новичо́к (novičók) — someone who just recently started
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-tòiseachaidh — someone who just recently started
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀четнӣк — someone who just recently started
• Serbo-Croatian: pòčetnīk — someone who just recently started
• Slovak: nováčik — someone who just recently started
• Slovak: začiatočník — someone who just recently started
• Slovak: začiatočníčka — someone who just recently started
• Slovene: začetnik — someone who just recently started
• Slovene: začetnica — someone who just recently started
• Spanish: bisoño — someone who just recently started
• Spanish: novato — someone who just recently started
• Spanish: novel — someone who just recently started
• Spanish: novicio — someone who just recently started
• Spanish: novillo — someone who just recently started
• Spanish: principiante — someone who just recently started
• Swedish: nybörjare — someone who just recently started
• Swedish: novis — someone who just recently started
• Tagalog: singki — someone who just recently started
• Tajik: навкор (navkor) — someone who just recently started
• Tajik: навомӯз (navomüz) — someone who just recently started
• Tajik: навқалам (navqalam) — someone who just recently started
• Tajik: навшогирд (navšogird) — someone who just recently started
• Tajik: мубтадӣ (mubtadi) — someone who just recently started
• Thai: มือใหม่ (mʉʉ-mài) — someone who just recently started
• Tocharian B: ñwetstse — someone who just recently started
• Turkish: acemi — someone who just recently started
• Turkish: çaylak — someone who just recently started
• Turkish: çömez — someone who just recently started
• Turkish: çöne — someone who just recently started
• Turkish: toy — someone who just recently started
• Ottoman Turkish: ملازم (mülâzım) — someone who just recently started
• Ukrainian: початкі́вець (počatkívecʹ) — someone who just recently started
• Ukrainian: новачо́к (novačók) — someone who just recently started
• Ukrainian: нова́к (novák) — someone who just recently started
• Ukrainian: нова́чка (nováčka) — someone who just recently started
• Urdu: مُبْتَدی (mubtadī) — someone who just recently started
• Vietnamese: người bắt đầu — someone who just recently started
• Vietnamese: người mới học — someone who just recently started
• Volapük: priman — someone who just recently started
• Volapük: hipriman — someone who just recently started
• Volapük: jipriman — someone who just recently started
• Welsh: dechreuwr — someone who just recently started
• Yiddish: אָנפֿאַנגער (onfanger) — someone who just recently started
• Yiddish: אָנהייבער (onheyber) — someone who just recently started
• Dutch: starter — someone who sets something in motion
• Estonian: alustaja — someone who sets something in motion
• Finnish: avaaja — someone who sets something in motion
• Finnish: aloittaja — someone who sets something in motion
• Finnish: käynnistäjä — someone who sets something in motion
• Romanian: inițiator — someone who sets something in motion
• Spanish: iniciador — someone who sets something in motion