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Etymology 1
From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
Noun
start (plural starts)
- The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
2011 February 12, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 2 - 0 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[1], archived from the original on 22 September 2026:Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies:You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
to get, or have, the start
1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados:The man has got two clear days' start and the chances are nine to one against catching him.
- (UK, slang, archaic) A happening or proceeding.
1887, Hawley Smart, A False Start, volume 2, page 69:“It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
- Albanian: fillimi, nisja
- American Sign Language: 1@InFinger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh 1@InFinger-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh
- Arabic: نَجْمَة (ar) f (najma), اِبْتِدَاء (ar) (ibtidāʔ)
- Armenian: սկիզբ (hy) (skizb)
- Assamese: আৰম্ভ (arombho)
- Belarusian: пача́так m (pačátak)
- Bengali: ইবতিদা (bn) (ibtida), শুরু (bn) (śuru), আগাজ (bn) (agaz)
- Bulgarian: нача́ло (bg) n (načálo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 開始 / 开始 (zh) (kāishǐ)
- Czech: začátek (cs)
- Danish: begyndelse (da) c
- Dutch: begin (nl), start (nl), aanvang (nl)
- Esperanto: eko (eo), komenco (eo)
- Faroese: byrjan f
- Finnish: alku (fi), aloitus (fi), käynnistys (fi); startti (fi) (colloquial)
- French: départ (fr) m, début (fr) m
- Georgian: დასაწყისი (dasac̣q̇isi)
- German: Beginn (de) m, Anfang (de) m
- Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌹 f (frumisti), 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (anastōdeins)
- Greek: αρχή (el) f (archí), ξεκίνημα (el) n (xekínima)
- Ancient Greek: ἀρχή f (arkhḗ)
- Haitian Creole: kòmansman
- Hebrew: התחלה (he) f (hatkhalá)
- Hungarian: kezdet (hu)
- Icelandic: byrjun (is) f, upphaf n
- Ido: komenco (io)
- Indonesian: mulai (id)
- Ingrian: alku, alutos
- Italian: avvio (it) m, partenza (it) f, inizio (it) m
- Japanese: 開始 (ja) (kaishi), 初め (ja) (はじめ, hajime), スタート (ja) (sutāto), 出だし (でだし, dedashi)
- Kazakh: бас (kk) (bas)
- Korean: 처음 (ko) (cheo'eum), 시작(始作) (ko) (sijak)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سەرەتا (sereta)
- Latin: exordium n, orīgō (la) f
- Macedonian: по́четок m (póčetok)
- Manchu: ᡶᡠᡴᠵᡳᠨ (fukjin)
- Māori: tīmatanga, ōrokotīmatanga
- Mizo: bul, tìr, ṭan, ṭanna
- Pennsylvania German: Aabeginn m
- Persian: آغاز (fa) (âġâz)
- Polish: początek (pl) m, zaczątek
- Portuguese: começo (pt) m, início (pt) m, princípio (pt) m
- Romanian: început (ro)
- Russian: нача́ло (ru) n (načálo), старт (ru) m (start)
- Sami:
- Inari Sami: algâ
- Sanskrit: आद (sa) m (āda), आरम्भ (sa) m (ārambha)
- Scottish Gaelic: toiseach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: почетак m
- Latin: početak (sh) m
- Sicilian: inizziu m
- Slovak: začiatok (sk) m
- Slovene: začetek (sl) m
- Spanish: comienzo (es) m, inicio (es) m, principio (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: bigin
- Swedish: start (sv) c
- Tagalog: simula
- Tamil: தொடக்கம் (ta) (toṭakkam), ஆரம்பம் (ta) (ārampam)
- Telugu: ఆరంభము (te) (ārambhamu), ప్రారంభము (te) (prārambhamu)
- Turkish: başlangıç (tr)
- Ukrainian: поча́ток (uk) m (počátok)
- Vietnamese: bắt đầu (vi)
- Welsh: cychwyn (cy) m
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sudden involuntary movement
- Bulgarian: трепване (bg) n (trepvane), сепване n (sepvane)
- Danish: ryk n, spjæt n
- Esperanto: ekmovo
- Finnish: hätkähdys (fi), säpsähdys (fi)
- German: Ruck (de) m
- Hungarian: rándulás (hu), összerándulás, összerezzenés (hu)
- Icelandic: viðbragð (is) n
- Irish: geit f
- Italian: sussulto (it) m, sobbalzo (it) m
- Korean: 흠칫함 (heumchit-ham), 움찔함 (ko) (umjjilham)
- Māori: tamaki, kahuki, oho, ohorere, ohotata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rykk n
- Occitan: subresaut m, ressaut m
- Portuguese: sobressalto (pt) m
- Russian: рыво́к (ru) m (ryvók)
- Scottish Gaelic: leum m, clisgeadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трзај m, покрет m
- Latin: trzaj (sh) m, pokret (sh) m
- Sicilian: scantazzu m
- Spanish: respingo (es) m
- Swedish: ryck (sv) n
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beginning point of a race
appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match
horticulture: young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later
initial advantage over somebody else — see head start
Translations to be checked
Etymology 2
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.
Verb
start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)
- (ergative) To begin, commence, initiate.
- To set in motion.
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
- April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30
- I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject which the people of that kingdom love to start in discourse.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
- To begin.
The President fired the gun to start the footrace.
The rain started at 9:00.
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […] .” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
to start the engine
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex:Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
- To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- Synonym: jump
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 257, column 2:I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular haire to ſtand an end, Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]
1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):I start as from some dreadful dream.
1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:Keep your soul to the work when it is ready to start aside.
1836, Elizur Wright, Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, volume 2, page 162:Physical poison would make them start from arsenicked bread; shall not the moral poison which is in it, make them start more promptly still from slave produce?
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 100:I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; [...]
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
The hounds started a fox.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet?
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
the storm started the bolts in the vessel
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternon.
1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 76:[...] we could, with the greateſt eaſe, as well as clearneſs, ſee all objects, (ourſelves unſeen) only by applying our eyes cloſe to the crevice, where the moulding of a pannel had warp'd, or ſtarted a little on the other ſide.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 361:The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.
2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:“Look at Portu,” Michel insisted, “he scores goals and I never start him. He says: ‘You’re sinking me, but OK, I’ll just go out and score again.’”
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
to start a water cask
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
Have you started yet?
- (intransitive, possibly obsolete) To begin a journey; to set forth.
1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 5:I GET letters from you far too seldom considering that you can much more easily find people starting for Rome than I to Athens: considering, too, that you are more certain of my being at Rome than I of your being at Athens.
Usage notes
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “to begin”):
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
- Afrikaans: aangaan (af)
- Albanian: fillo, Nis
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: баштаар (baštaar)
- American Sign Language: 1@InFinger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh 1@InFinger-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh
- Arabic: بَدَأَ (badaʔa)
- Chadian Arabic: بدا (bada)
- Moroccan Arabic: بدا (bdā)
- North Levantine Arabic: بلّش (ballaš) (Lebanon)
- South Levantine Arabic: بدا (bada), بلّش (ballaš)
- Armenian: սկսել (hy) (sksel)
- Aromanian: ahurhescu, ãnchisescu, apãrnjescu, ntsep
- Assamese: আৰম্ভ কৰ (arombho kor)
- Asturian: entamar (ast)
- Azerbaijani: başlamaq (az)
- Belarusian: пачына́ць impf (pačynácʹ), пача́ць pf (pačácʹ) (transitive), пачына́цца impf (pačynácca), пача́цца (pačácca) (intransitive)
- Bengali: শুরু করা (bn) (śuru kora)
- Bulgarian: запо́чвам (bg) impf (zapóčvam), по́чвам (bg) impf (póčvam), по́чна (bg) pf (póčna)
- Burmese: စ (my) (ca.)
- Catalan: començar (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎴᏂᎭ (adaleniha)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 開始 / 开始 (hoi1 ci2)
- Mandarin: 開始 / 开始 (zh) (kāishǐ)
- Czech: začínat (cs) impf, začít (cs) pf
- Dalmatian: nizuor
- Dutch: beginnen (nl), starten (nl), aanvangen (nl)
- Esperanto: eki (eo)
- Finnish: aloittaa (fi), alkaa (fi)
- French: commencer (fr), entamer (fr), débuter (fr)
- Old French: comencier
- Frisian:
- North Frisian:
- Halligen: öönfange
- Friulian: comença
- Galician: comezar (gl)
- Georgian: დაწყება (dac̣q̇eba)
- German: anfangen (de), beginnen (de), starten (de)
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dustōdjan)
- Greek: ξεκινώ (el) (xekinó)
- Ancient Greek: ἄρχομαι (árkhomai)
- Haitian Creole: komanse
- Hebrew: התחיל (he) (hitkhíl)
- Hindi: शुरू करना (hi) (śurū karnā)
- Hungarian: elkezd (hu), megkezd (hu), kezd (hu)
- Icelandic: byrja (is)
- Ingrian: alkaa, noissa, käyvvä, lähtiä, aluttaa, täytyä, ruveta
- Irish: cuir tús le
- Italian: cominciare (it), iniziare (it)
- Japanese: 始める (ja) (はじめる, hajimeru) (transitive), 開始する (ja) (かいしする, kaishi suru), 始まる (ja) (はじまる, hajimaru) (intransitive)
- Korean: 시작하다 (ko) (sijak-hada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دەسپێکردن (despêkirdin)
- Kyrgyz: баштоо (ky) (baştoo)
- Latin: incipiō (la), ordior, initiō
- Māori: tīmata
- Marathi: सुरू करणे (surū karṇe)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: тӱҥалаш (tüŋalaš)
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: yô, yōlòuh
- Nepali: शुरू गर्नु (śurū garnu)
- Norman: c'menchi (Jersey)
- Norwegian: begynne (no)
- Occitan: començar (oc)
- Ojibwe: maad-
- Old English: onġinnan
- Persian: آغاز کردن (fa) (āghāz kardan), شروع کردن (fa) (shorū’ kardan), آغازیدن (fa) (âġâzidan) (formal, written)
- Polish: zacząć (pl)
- Portuguese: começar (pt), iniciar (pt), estartar (pt) (Brazil)
- Romanian: începe (ro)
- Russian: начина́ть (ru) impf (načinátʹ), нача́ть (ru) pf (načátʹ) (transitive), начина́ться (ru) impf (načinátʹsja), нача́ться (ru) pf (načátʹsja) (intransitive)
- Santali: ᱮᱦᱳᱵ (ehop’)
- Scottish Gaelic: tòisich
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̀че̄ти, започети, начнути, начети
- Latin: pòčēti (sh), započeti (sh), načnuti, načeti (sh)
- Shan: တႄႇ (shn) (tàae)
- Sicilian: accuminzari (scn), accuminciari (scn), attaccari (scn)
- Slovak: začať (sk) pf, začínať impf
- Slovene: začeti (sl)
- Sranan Tongo: bigin
- Swahili: -anza (sw)
- Swedish: börja (sv)
- Sylheti: ꠡꠥꠞꠥ ꠇꠞꠣ (śuru xora)
- Tagalog: magsimula
- Tamil: ஆரம்பி (ta) (ārampi), துவங்கு (ta) (tuvaṅku), தொடங்கு (ta) (toṭaṅku)
- Thai: เริ่ม (th) (rə̂əm), เริ่มต้น (th) (rə̂əm-dtôn), ตั้งต้น (th)
- Turkish: başlamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: почина́ти (uk) impf (počynáty), поча́ти (uk) pf (počáty) (transitive), почина́тися impf (počynátysja), поча́тися pf (počátysja) (intransitive)
- Uzbek: boshlamoq (uz)
- Venetan: scuminsiar
- Vietnamese: bắt đầu (vi)
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- Azerbaijani: işə salmaq (az)
- Bengali: শুরু করা (bn) (śuru kora)
- Bulgarian: пускам (bg) (puskam)
- Catalan: començar (ca)
- Danish: starte
- Dutch: starten (nl)
- Esperanto: eki (eo)
- Finnish: käynnistää (fi), aloittaa (fi), laskea liikkeelle (rumor)
- French: commencer (fr)
- Old French: comencier
- Galician: comezar (gl)
- German: anfangen (de), streuen (de) (rumour), gründen (de), starten (de)
- Hebrew: התחיל (he) (hitkhíl)
- Hungarian: elindít (hu), indít (hu)
- Māori: timata (mi)
- Mizo: ṭan
- Neapolitan: accumencià
- Norwegian: starte (no)
- Polish: ruszyć (pl)
- Portuguese: abrir (pt), começar (pt)
- Romanian: începe (ro)
- Russian: запуска́ть (ru) impf (zapuskátʹ), запусти́ть (ru) pf (zapustítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: zapustiti (sh), pustiti (sh), navesti (sh)
- Sicilian: attaccari (scn), fari pàrtiri
- Swedish: starta (sv)
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to initiate operation of a vehicle or machine — see also initiate, turn on
- Afrikaans: aangaan (af)
- Albanian: ndez (sq)
- American Sign Language: 1@InFinger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh 1@InFinger-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh
- Azerbaijani: işə salmaq (az)
- Bulgarian: стартирам (bg) (startiram)
- Catalan: engegar (ca)
- Chickasaw: malichi
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 启动 (zh) (qǐdòng)
- Dutch: starten (nl)
- Esperanto: eki (eo), starti
- Finnish: käynnistää (fi), startata (fi) (colloquial)
- French: démarrer (fr), mettre en route (fr)
- Galician: iniciar (gl), arrancar
- German: starten (de), anlassen (de)
- Hebrew: התחיל (he) (hitkhíl)
- Hungarian: beindít (hu) (e.g. an engine)
- Indonesian: menjalankan (id)
- Italian: avviare (it)
- Japanese: 始動する (ja) (shidō suru)
- Malay: menjalankan (ms)
- Norman: stèrter (Jersey, computing)
- Polish: uruchomić (pl), zapalić (pl), zapuścić (pl)
- Portuguese: ligar (pt)
- Romanian: porni (ro)
- Russian: запуска́ть (ru) impf (zapuskátʹ), запусти́ть (ru) pf (zapustítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: pokrenuti (sh)
- Sicilian: fari pàrtiri, aḍḍumari, attaccari (scn)
- Slovene: zagnati
- Spanish: arrancar (es), rancar (es)
- Swedish: starta (sv), sätta igång (sv)
- Tamil: கிளப்பு (ta) (kiḷappu)
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to put or raise a question or objection, to put forward
of an activity, to begin
- Afrikaans: aangaan (af)
- American Sign Language: 1@InFinger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh 1@InFinger-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh
- Armenian: սկսվել (hy) (sksvel)
- Bulgarian: започвам (bg) (započvam)
- Catalan: començar (ca)
- Dutch: starten (nl), beginnen (nl), aanvangen (nl)
- Esperanto: eki (eo), komenci (eo)
- Finnish: alkaa (fi), aloittaa (fi), käynnistyä (fi) (of motors)
- French: commencer (fr), débuter (fr)
- Old French: comencier
- German: beginnen (de)
- Hebrew: התחיל (he) (hitkhíl), פצח (he) (patsákh)
- Hungarian: elkezd (hu), kezd (hu)
- Italian: creare (it), avviare (it)
- Japanese: 始まる (ja) (hajimaru)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دەسپێکردن (despêkirdin)
- Norman: c'menchi (Jersey)
- Polish: zacząć (pl) pf, rozpocząć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: começar (pt)
- Russian: начина́ться (ru) impf (načinátʹsja), нача́ться (ru) pf (načátʹsja), стартова́ть (ru) pf or impf (startovátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: početi (sh), započeti (sh)
- Sicilian: attaccari (scn), accuminciari (scn), nnartari (scn), ncignari (scn), pàrtiri
- Swedish: börja (sv)
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to have its origin (at), begin
to jerk suddenly in surprise
- Bulgarian: трепвам (bg) (trepvam), сепвам се (sepvam se)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 胡鬧 / 胡闹 (zh) (húnào)
- Danish: rykke til
- Dutch: opschrikken (nl)
- Esperanto: ekmiri, ekkonsterniĝi, konsterniĝe resalti
- Faroese: hveppa
- Finnish: hätkähtää (fi), säpsähtää (fi)
- French: sursauter (fr)
- German: zusammenfahren (de), zusammenzucken (de)
- Hungarian: rándul (hu), összerándul (hu), megrezzen (hu), összerezzen (hu)
- Icelandic: hrökkva við
- Irish: geit
- Japanese: びくっとする (bikuttosuru)
- Māori: ohomauri, ohorere, ohotata, hiki, kōtiri (whilst asleep), hoto, kohema
- Polish: poderwać się
- Portuguese: sobressaltar (pt)
- Russian: дёргаться (ru) impf (djórgatʹsja), дёрнуться (ru) pf (djórnutʹsja), вздрагивать (ru) (vzdragivatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: leum
- Serbo-Croatian: trznuti (sh), trgnuti (sh)
- Sicilian: abbaguttiri (scn), risautari
- Swedish: rycka till (sv)
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to break away, to come loose
Translations to be checked
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (please verify) 開始 / 开始 (zh) (kāishǐ), (please verify) 开始 (zh) (kāishǐ)
- Dutch: (please verify) starten (nl), (please verify) beginnen (nl), (please verify) aanvangen (nl)
- German: (please verify) starten (de) (at a race), (please verify) anfangen (de), (please verify) zusammenzucken (de)
- Ido: (please verify) komencar (io)
- Irish: (please verify) preab
- Italian: (please verify) cominciare (it)
- Romanian: (please verify) tresări (ro), (please verify) porni (ro), (please verify) începe (ro)
- Romansh: (please verify) entschaiver, (please verify) cumanzar, (please verify) iniziar
- Swedish: (please verify) starta (sv), (please verify) börja (sv)
- Telugu: (please verify) మొదలుపెట్టు (te) (modalupeṭṭu), (please verify) ప్రారంభించు (te) (prārambhiñcu)
- Vietnamese: (please verify) Bắt đầu
- Woiwurrung: (please verify) noorrp-tang-a-din
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Noun
start (plural starts)
- An instance of starting.
Derived terms
See also
- See also the terms derived from starting.
Etymology 3
From Middle English stert, start (“tail, handle, projection”), from Old English steort (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Scots start, stairt (“side post, shaft, upright post”), Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Danish stjert (“tail of a bird”), Faroese stertur (“tail”), Icelandic stertur (“short horse tail”), Norn skjårt (“tail”), sterti (“tail of a large fish”), stjårt (“tail of a large fish”), Norwegian stjert (“tail of a bird”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).
Noun
start (plural starts)
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
1845, Captain R.E. Crawley, Description of a Water-Course, Wharf, and Water-Wheel, erected at Waltham Abbey, Essex […] :The fall of water is 6 feet, and the radius of the curve is 8 feet, from the centre of the water-wheel to the extreme point of the start.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
1834, William Andrus Alcott, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Parley's Magazine, page 364:... horses, a number of men who seemed to acquire strength as the necessity for it increased, applied their shoulders to the starts, or shafts of the gin, and worked it with extraordinary speed. By twelve o'clock, thirty-two […]
1854, Glynn, Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Cranes and Machinery for Raising Heavy Bodies, page 13:[…] so that the horse may not expend his force in an oblique direction, but get a fair pull on the "starts."
1973, Industrial Archaeology, page 254:With iron posts it is of course impossible to mortise in the starts and they were bolted between two cast-iron plates instead. The inclined stays were bolted to a […]
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Variant of stark.[1]
Adverb
start (comparative more start, superlative most start)
- (dialectal, archaic) Completely, utterly.
1828 August 22, “Militia System”, in The New England Farmer, volume VII, Boston, M.A.: John B. Russell, published 1829, page 40, column 1:Col.—The age has no sense—the people are start mad—as mad as a March mare. We should have fine times, indeed if our laws did'nt compel the poor people to protect the property of the rich.
References
Anagrams
Breton
Adjective
start
- firm, strong
- difficult
Derived terms
Further reading
- Herve Ar Bihan, Colloquial Breton, pages 16 and 268: define "start" as "hard, difficult, firm"
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start
- start
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
Noun
start m inan
- start (beginning point of a race)
Declension
Declension of start (hard masculine inanimate)
Related terms
See also
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start c (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)
- start
Inflection
Verb
start
- imperative of starte
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start m (plural starts, diminutive startje n)
- start
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
start
- inflection of starten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative
German
Pronunciation
Verb
start
- singular imperative of starten
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch start, from English start.
Pronunciation
Verb
start
- synonym of memulai
- synonym of berangkat
Noun
start (plural start-start)
- start (the beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.)
Related terms
Further reading
Maltese
Pronunciation
Verb
start
- first/second-person singular perfect of satar
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural starter, definite plural startene)
- a start
- fra start til mål ― from start to finish
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
start
- imperative of starte
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
Noun
start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural startar, definite plural startane)
- a start (beginning)
Verb
start
- imperative of starta
Derived terms
References
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstart/
- Rhymes: -art
- Syllabification: start
Noun
start m inan
- (sports) start (beginning of a race)
- (aviation) takeoff
Z niecierpliwością czekałam na start samolotu do Paryża.- I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off/for its take-off.
- participation
Większość kibiców ucieszyła się, że zdecydował się on na start w zawodach.- Most fans were happy to hear that he had decided to take part in the competition.
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “start”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “start”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[5] (in Polish)
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English start.
Noun
start m (plural starts)
- alternative form of estarte
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start n (plural starturi)
- start (of a race)
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
Noun
start c
- a start; a beginning (of a race)
- the starting (of an engine)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
References
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [staɾt]
- Hyphenation: start
Noun
start (definite accusative startı, plural startlar)
- start
Usage notes
Turkish phonotactics disallows complex syllable onsets, thus speakers may epenthesize a vowel after the first consonant, pronouncing it as [sɯtaɾt].
Declension
Antonyms
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