beforehand, previously
eş: d’abord, avant
köken: Inherited from Middle French auparavant, a univerbation of au + par + avant.
🔊 un an auparavant
🔊 Je l'en avais averti longtemps auparavant.
🔊 Je n'avais jamais vu une aussi belle jeune fille auparavant.
from the outset, at the outset, from the start, first of all, first up
at first, firstly, first of all
eş: prima
köken: Univerbation of da + prima.
firstly, first of all (mainly in sequences and enumerations)
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَوَّلًا (ʔawwalan), from the adverbial accusative of أَوَّل (ʔawwal). By surface analysis, اول (avval) + ـاً (-an).
at first · in the past, before, at an earlier time
köken: Ultimately from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal, “first”).
aile: əvvəl-axır, əvvəl-əvvəl, əvvəla, əvvəlcə, əvvəlcədən, əvvəldən, əvvələn, əvvəlinci, əvvəlki, əvvəllər
🔊 üç dəqiqə bundan əvvəl
🔊 bir neçə il bundan əvvəl
first of all; first; firstly
köken: From Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal). Compare Uzbek avval.
ablative of беренсе (berense)
köken: Compare to Kazakh біріншіден (bırınşıden, “firstly”), Uzbek birinchidan (“firstly”), Uyghur بىرىنچىدىن (birinchidin, “firstly”).
🔊 Китапты беренсенән бишенсе бүлеккә тиклем уҡыу.
in the first place, firstly
köken: From Middle Dutch alreerst. Equivalent to aller- + eerst.
firstly, initially
eş: primente
zıt: finalmente
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese primeiramente. By surface analysis, primeira + -mente. Compare Galician primeiramente.
in the first place, to begin with, (in a question) at all
🔊 1945, 大東亞戰爭終結ノ詔書 抑々帝國臣民ノ康寧ヲ圖リ Somosomo teikoku shinmin no kōnei o hakari To strive for the well-being and security of the empire's subjects
first; initial
zıt: 最後, 最后
first in time or sequence
eş: 앞
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 몬져 (Yale: mwòncyè).
🔊 먼저 얘기부터 합시다.
one; the digit or figure "1". · first-grader; person who attends the first year of school · a class of first-graders
çekim: çoğul ettor · tamlayan ettas
köken: From the digit ett (“one”).
🔊 De barnen går i ettan.
first, firstly, first of all (before anything else) · at once, right away, immediately (without waiting)
köken: Literally, “at [the] beginning [of]”.
first, primary · first-class, high quality
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian اول (awwal), from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal), from the root ء و ل (ʔ w l).
aile: अव्वलन, अव्वलीन
originally, initially, at first
first (before anything else), for the first time, at first, at the beginning
eş: ponejprv, nejdříve, napoprvé
köken: From první.
first
köken: From archaic and dialectal întâniu, from Vulgar Latin *antaneus, metathesis of Latin *anteanus (“former, prior”) (cf. French French ancien), from Latin ante, or alternatively from a root *antevenium, from anteveniō. Compare Aromanian ntãnj, ntãnjiu.
in the first place, to begin with
from the outset, from the beginning
köken: Presumably borrowed from Aramaic [Term?].