début
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Noun
début (plural débuts)
- Alternative spelling of debut
Verb
début (third-person singular simple present débuts, present participle débuting, simple past and past participle débuted)
- Alternative spelling of debut
Anagrams
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French début, deverbal of desbuter (“to move, begin”) (whence débuter).
Pronunciation
Noun
début m (plural débuts)
- start, beginning
- Synonym: commencement
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: debuut
- → Armenian: (via Russian) դեբյուտ (debyut)
- → Azerbaijani: debüt
- → Belarusian: дэбю́т (debjút)
- → Czech: debut
- → Danish: debut
- → Dutch: debuut
- → Indonesian: début
- → Esperanto: debuto
- → Estonian: (possibly via German) debüüt
- → Georgian: (possibly via Russian) დებიუტი (debiuṭi)
- → German: Debüt
- → English: debut, début
- → Finnish: debyytti
- → Hindi: डेब्यू (ḍebyū)
- → Hebrew: דבוט (debut)
- → Ido: debuto
- → Italian: debutto
- → Japanese: デビュー (debyū)
- → Korean: 데뷔 (debwi)
- ⇒ Latvian: (possibly via a Germanic intermediate) debija
- → Lithuanian: debiutas
- → Luxembourgish: Debut
- → Norwegian Bokmål: debut
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: debut
- → Polish: debiut
- → Romanian: debut
- → Russian: дебю́т (debjút)
- → Slovak: debut
- → Spanish: debut
- → Swedish: debut
- → Ukrainian: дебю́т (debjút)
- → Urdu: ڈیبیو (ḍebyū)
- → Yiddish: דעבוט (debut), (possibly via Slavic) דעביוט (debyut)
Further reading
- “début”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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