début

See also: debut and Debüt

English

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

tubed

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French début, deverbal of desbuter (“to move, begin”) (whence débuter).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de.by/
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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
- → Cantonese: 地標 / 地标 (dei⁶ biu¹)
→ 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.