Енглески
Систем
ен+нг=енг
Изговор
Etymology 1
FromСредњи Енглескиfirst,furst,ferst,fyrst, fromСтари Енглескиfyrest, fromПра-Германски*furistaz(“foremost, first”), superlative ofПра-Германски*fur,*fura,*furi(“before”), fromProto-Indo-European*per-,*pero-(“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent tofore +-est. Cognate withNorth Frisianfoarste(“first”),Холандскиvoorste(“foremost, first”),НемачкиFürst(“chief, prince”, literally“first (born)”),Шведскиförst(“first”),Norwegian Nynorskfyrst(“first”),Icelandicfyrstur(“first”).
Other cognates includeСанскртपूर्व(pūrva,“first”) andРускипервый(pervyj).
Alternative forms
Adjective
first (notcomparable)
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one;earliest.
- Hancock wasfirst to arrive.
- Шаблон:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
2013 август 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. Thefirst barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
Thefirst day of September 2013 was a Sunday.
I was thefirst runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
- 1784: William Jones,The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c.,PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of thefirſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- 1880, S. W. Silver & Co,Handbook for Australia & New Zealand (page 146)
- It rose to be thefirst of pastoral regions, and continued until after the gold discovery to be the land of squatterdom.
Demosthenes was thefirst orator of Greece.
thefirst violinist
- Of or belonging to afirst family.
- First Cat;First Daughter;First Dog;First Son
Related terms
Translations
numeral first
—See also translations at1st- Abkhaz:актәи(āḳṭwi)
- Adyghe:апэрэ(apɛrɛ)
- Afrikaans:eerste (af)
- Aghwan:𐕚𐔴𐕙𐔱𐔰𐕒𐕡𐕎(serbaun)
- Albanian:parë (sq)
- American Sign Language:1@Side-PalmForward 1@Side-PalmBack
- Amharic:አንደኛ(ʾändäña)
- Arabic:أَوَّل (ar) m(ʾawwal),أُولَى f(ʾūlā)
- Egyptian Arabic:أول m(ʾawwil)
- Armenian:առաջին (hy)(aṙaǰin)
- Assamese:পহিলা(pohila),প্ৰথম(prothom)
- Asturian:primeru (ast)
- Azerbaijani:birinci (az),ilk
- Bashkir:беренсе(berense)
- Basque:lehenengo (eu)
- Belarusian:пе́ршы(pjéršy)
- Bengali:প্রথম(prôthôm),আউয়াল(auval),পহেলা(pôhela)
- Breton:kentañ (br)
- Bulgarian:пъ́рви (bg)(pǎ́rvi)
- Burmese:ပထမ (my)(pa.hta.ma.)
- Buryat:нэгэдэхи(negedexi)
- Catalan:primer (ca) m
- Cebuano:una
- Chamicuro:mashapulista
- Chechen:хьалхара(ḥʳalxara)
- Cherokee:ᎢᎬᏱᎢ(igvyii)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:第一(dai6 jat1),最初(zeoi3 co1)
- Hakka:第一(thi-yit)
- Mandarin:第一 (zh)(dìyī),最初 (zh)(zuìchū)
- Min Nan:第一 (zh-min-nan)(tē-it)
- Chuukese:aewin
- Chuvash:пӗрремӗш(pĕrremĕš)
- Classical Nahuatl:ic ce
- Crimean Tatar:birinci,sipti
- Czech:první (cs)
- Dalmatian:prein
- Danish:første (da)
- Dhivehi:އެއްވަނަ(evana)
- Dolgan:маӈнайгы(maŋnaygı)
- Dutch:eerst (nl)
- Egyptian: (tpj)
- Esperanto:unua (eo)
- Estonian:esimene (et)
- Evenki:элэкэсипты(ələkəsipti)
- Faroese:(of many)fyrsti,(of two)fyrri
- Finnish:ensimmäinen (fi)
- French:premier (fr),-unième(used in compounds)
- Friulian:prin
- Gagauz:birinci
- Galician:primeiro
- Ge'ez:ቀዳሚ(ḳädami)
- Georgian:პირველი(ṗirveli)
- German:erster (de),erste (de)
- Gothic:𐍆𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰(fruma)
- Greek:πρώτος (el)(prótos)
- Ancient:πρῶτος(prôtos),πρώτιστος(prṓtistos)(poetic, Koine)
- Doric:πρᾶτος(prâtos)
- Guaraní:ypy
- Gujarati:પહેલું(pahelũ)
- Haitian Creole:premye
- Hawaiian:mua
- Hebrew:רִאשׁוֹן (he) m(rishón)
- Hindi:पहला (hi)(pahlā),प्रथम (hi)(pratham),पहिला (hi)(pahilā),अव्वल (hi)(avval),प्रारंभिक (hi)(prārambhik)
- Hungarian:első (hu)
- Icelandic:fyrstur m
- Ido:unesma (io)
- Indonesian:pertama (id),(молимоверавање)perdana (id),kesatu (id)
- Ingrian:ensimäin
- Interlingua:prime
- Irish:aonú,céad (ga)
- Istriot:preîmo
- Italian:primo (it)
- Japanese:第一 (ja)(daiichi),最初 (ja)(saisho),初めて (ja)(hajimete),初 (ja)(hatsu),一番目(ichibanme)
- Kabyle:amezwaru,amenzu
- Kalmyk:негдгч(negdgç)
- Kannada:ಒಂದನೆಯ(ondaneya)
- Karakhanid:اِلْكْ(ilk)
- Kazakh:бірінші(bırınşı)
- Khakas:пастағы(pastağı),пірінӌі(píríncí)
- Khmer:ទីមួយ(tii muəy)
- Konkani:पयलें(paylẽ)
- Korean:첫째 (ko)(cheotjjae),첫번째(cheot beonjjae),제일(第一) (ko)(jeil),최초(最初) (ko)(choecho)
- Kunigami:初(ぱちー, pachī)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:یەکەم(yekem)
- Northern Kurdish:yekem (ku),yekemîn (ku)
- Kyrgyz:биринчи (ky)(birinçi)
- Ladin:prim,prum
- Lakota:t’oka,t’okeya,t’okaheya
- Lao:ທີ່ນຶ່ງ(thī nưng),ທີ່ໜຶ່ງ(thī nưng),ທີ່ຫນຶ່ງ(thī nưng)
- Latgalian:pyrmais
- Latin:prīmus (la)
- Latvian:pirmais,pirmā
- Lithuanian:pìrmas (lt)
- Livonian:ežmi
- Louisiana Creole French:prémiyé,prinmiyé
- Low German:
- German Low German:ȩrst- (definite neuter singular:ȩrste),eerst (nds)
- Luxembourgish:éischt
- Macedonian:прв(prv)
- Malay:pertama
- Malayalam:ഒന്നാം(onnāṃ)
- Maltese:l-ewwel
- Manchu:ᡝᠮᡠᠴᡳ,ᡠᠵᡠᡳ,ᡠᠵᡠ,ᠪᠣᠨᡤᡤᠣ
- Manx:kied,yn chied
- Maori:tuatahi,te tahi
- Marathi:पहिला(pahilā)
- Mirandese:purmeiro
- Miyako:初(ぱつぃ, patsï)
- Mongolian:анхдугаар(anhdugaar),анхны(anhny),(less commonly used)нэгдүгээр (mn)(negdügeer),нэгдэх (mn)(negdeh)
- Nahuatl:achtoquetl
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- Navajo:łáaʼii góneʼ,áłtsé
- Norman:preunmyi
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum, Hallig:iarst
- Helgoland:iáárs
- Mooring:jarst
- Sylt:jest
- Northern Amami-Oshima:初(はつぃ, hatsï)
- Northern Sami:vuosttaš
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:første (no)
- Nynorsk:første,fyrste
- Occitan:primièr (oc)
- Okinawan:初(はち, hachi)
- Old Church Slavonic:прьвъ(prĭvŭ)
- Old English:forma,ǣrest
- Old Frisian:forma,ērosta
- Old Prussian:pirmas
- Old Turkic:𐰃𐰠𐰚(il²k/ilk/)
- Ossetian:фыццаг(fyccag)
- Pashto:لومړی (ps)(lumṛay)
- Pennsylvania German:erscht
- Persian:اولین (fa)(avvalin),اول (fa)(avval),یکمین (fa)(yekomin),یکم (fa)(yekom),نخستین (fa)(noxostin),نخست (fa)(noxost)
- Plautdietsch:ieescht
- Polish:pierwszy (pl)
- Portuguese:primeiro (pt)
- Punjabi:ਪਹਿਲਾ(pahilā)
- Quechua:hukñiqin
- Romagnol:prèm
- Romani:jekhto
- Romanian:prim (ro)
- Romansch:emprim,emprem
- Russian:пе́рвый (ru)(pérvyj)
- Rusyn:пе́ршый(péršŷj),пе́рвый(pérvŷj)
- Sanskrit:प्रथम (sa)(prathamá)
- Sardinian:primmu,primu
- Scots:first
- Scottish Gaelic:a' chiad,a' cheud
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:први
- Roman:prvi (sh)
- Shor:паштапқы,пиринчи
- Sicilian:primu (scn)
- Sindhi:پهريون m(pahariyōn),پهرِين f
- Sinhalese:පළමු(paḷamu)
- Slovak:prvý (sk)
- Slovene:pŕvi (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:prědny
- Upper Sorbian:prěni
- Southern Altai:биринчи(birinči),баштапкы(baštapkï)
- Spanish:primer (es)
- Swahili:-a kwanza
- Swedish:förste (sv) (in front of a noun designating a male),första (sv) (in front of other nouns),först (sv) (if no noun after)
- Sylheti:ꠚꠂꠟꠣ(foila)
- Tagalog:una (tl)
- Tajik:аввал (tg)(avval),якум(yakum)
- Tamil:முதல் (ta)(mutal)
- Tatar:беренче(berençe)
- Telugu:మొదటి (te)(modaṭi),ఒకటవ (te)(okaṭava),ప్రథమము (te)(prathamamu)
- Thai:ที่หนึ่ง
- Tibetan:དང་པོ།(dang po)
- Tigre:ቀዳም(ḳädam)
- Tigrinya:ቀዳማይ(ḳädamay)
- Tocharian B:parwe,pärweṣṣe
- Tupinambá:ypy
- Turkish:birinci (tr),evvel (tr)(obsolescent),ilk (tr)
- Turkmen:birinji (tk)
- Tuvan:бирги(bïrgï),баштайгы(baštaygı)
- Ukrainian:пе́рший (uk)(péršyj)
- Urdu:پہلا(pahlā),اوّل(avval)
- Uyghur:بىرىنچى(birinchi)
- Uzbek:birinchi (uz)
- Venetian:primo (vec)
- Vietnamese:thứ nhất,đầu tiên (vi)
- Votic:esimein
- Walloon:prumî (wa) m,prumire (wa) f,-ey-ininme m orf(used in compounds)
- Waray-Waray:siyahan,una,primero
- Welsh:cyntaf (cy)
- West Frisian:earst (fy),foarst
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- Yaeyama:初(ぱつぃ, patsï)
- Yagnobi:якум(yakum)
- Yakut:биирис(biiris),маҥнайгы(maŋnaygı)
- Yiddish:ערשט(ersht)
- Yoruba:akọkọ
- Yucatec Maya:yáax
Adverb
first (notcomparable)
- Before anything else;firstly.
Clean the sinkfirst, before you even think of starting to cook.
I plunged nosefirst into the water.
1913,Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, inMr. Pratt's Patients:That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on itfirst was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
2013 јун 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page29:Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesiafirst began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
- For the first time;
Ifirst witnessed a death when I was nine years old.
Synonyms
Translations
before anything else
- Arabic:أَوَّلاً(ʾawwalan)
- Armenian:նախ (hy)(nax)
- Aromanian:ntãnj,ntãnjiu
- Asturian:primeramente
- Azerbaijani:əvvəl (az),ilk növbədə
- Bashkir:тәүҙә(täwðä),башта(bašta),алда(alda),алдан(aldan),борон(boron),элек(elek)
- Basque:aurreneko (eu)
- Belarusian:спача́тку (be)(spačátku),па-пе́ршае(pa-pjéršaje)
- Bulgarian:първо (bg)(pǎrvo)
- Catalan:primer (ca) m
- Cebuano:una,permiro
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:先(sin1),第一(dai6 jat1)
- Mandarin:第一 (zh)(dìyī),首先 (zh)(shǒuxiān),先 (zh)(xiān),最先 (zh)(zuìxiān)
- Czech:zaprvé,prvně
- Danish:først (da)
- Dutch:eerst (nl)
- Esperanto:unue
- Faroese:fyrst
- Finnish:ensinnäkin (fi),ensiksi (fi),ensin (fi)
- French:avant tout (fr),en premier lieu (fr),d’abord (fr),premièrement (fr),primo (fr),auparavant (fr)
- Galician:primeiro
- German:erstens (de),an erster Stelle,zuerst (de),als Erstes
- Greek:πρώτα (el) m(próta),πρωτίστως (el) m(protístos)
- Ancient:πρῶτον(prôton)
- Hindi:अव्वल (hi)(avval),प्रारंभिक (hi)(prārambhik)
- Hungarian:először (hu),előbb (hu),előtte (hu)
- Icelandic:fyrst (is)
- Irish:ar dtús
- Italian:prima (it),dapprima (it)
- Japanese:先ず (ja)(mazu),第一に (ja)(daiichi ni),最初に (ja)(saisho ni),先に (ja)(saki ni)
- Karakhanid:اِلْكْ(ilk)
- Korean:우선 (ko)(useon)
- Lakota:t’oeyaš,t’owaš,t’oel,t’ok’eyaš
- Latin:prīmum (la)
- Macedonian:прво(prvo),најпрво(najprvo),најпрвин(najprvin),првин(prvin)
- Malayalam:ആദ്യം (ml)(ādyaṃ),ഒന്നാമത്(onnāmatŭ)
- Maori:mātua
- Ngazidja Comorian:rangu
- Northern Sami:vuos
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:først (no)
- Nynorsk:først,fyrst
- Pashto:لومړی (ps)(lumṛay)
- Persian:نخست (fa)(naxost)
- Polish:najpierw (pl)
- Portuguese:primeiro (pt) m
- Quechua:ñawpa
- Romanian:întâi (ro)
- Russian:во-пе́рвых (ru)(vo-pérvyx),пре́жде всего́ (ru)(préžde vsevó),в пе́рвую о́чередь (ru)(v pérvuju óčeredʹ),сперва́ (ru)(spervá)
- Scottish Gaelic:an toiseach
- Slovak:po prvé
- Spanish:primeramente (es),para empezar
- Swedish:först (sv)
- Turkish:ilk (tr),önce (tr),başta (tr)
- Ukrainian:по-пе́рше(po-pérše),спе́ршу(spéršu),споча́тку (uk)(spočátku)
- Uyghur:ئاۋۋال(awwal)
- Yiddish:פֿריִער(frier)
- Zazaki:sıfte
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Noun
first (countable anduncountable,pluralfirsts)
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
He was thefirst to complete the course.
- (uncountable) Thefirst gear of an engine.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
This is afirst. For once he has nothing to say.
- (countable, baseball)first base
There was a close play atfirst.
- (countable, British, colloquial) Afirst-classhonours degree.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-editioncopy of some publication.
- A fraction of an integer ending in one.
one forty-first of the estate
Translations
person or thing in the first position
- Arabic:أَوَّل (ar)(ʾawwal)
- Armenian:առաջին (hy)(aṙaǰin)
- Aromanian:ntãnj,ntãnjiu
- Basque:lehenengo (eu)
- Belarusian:пе́ршы(pjéršy)
- Bengali:আউয়াল(auwal),পহেলা(pôhela)
- Bulgarian:първенец (bg) m(pǎrvenec)
- Catalan:primer (ca) m
- Cebuano:una,primero,permiro
- Chickasaw:ámmo'na,ammo'na'
- Czech:první (cs)
- Dalmatian:prein
- Danish:denførste,denforreste
- Dutch:eerste (nl) m orf
- Esperanto:unua (eo)
- Finnish:ykkönen (fi)
- French:premier (fr) m
- Friulian:prin m
- Galician:primeiro m
- German:Erste (de)
- Greek:πρώτος (el) m(prótos)
- Hindi:अव्वल (hi)(avval),प्रथम (hi)(pratham),प्रारंभिक (hi)(prārambhik)
- Hungarian:első (hu)
- Interlingua:primo (ia) m
- Italian:primo (it) m
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:یەکەم(yekem)
- Macedonian:прв(prv)
- Malayalam:ഒന്നാമൻ m(onnāman)
- Maori:tuatahi,mātāmua(child in a family)
- Occitan:primièr (oc) m
- Pashto:لومړی (ps) m(lumṛay)
- Polish:pierwszy (pl)
- Portuguese:primeiro (pt) m
- Romanian:primul m,întâiul,întâi (ro)
- Romansch:emprim,emprem
- Russian:пе́рвый (ru)(pérvyj)
- Sardinian:primmu,primu
- Spanish:primero (es) m,primo (es) m
- Swedish:etta (sv)
- Tocharian A:pärwat
- Tocharian B:parwe
- Turkish:birinci (tr),ilk (tr)
- Ukrainian:пе́рший (uk)(péršyj)
- Vietnamese:cơ bản (vi)
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UK colloquial: first-class honours degree
colloquial: a first-edition copy
fraction of an integer ending in one
Derived terms
Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, or nounfirst
See also
Etymology 2
FromСредњи Енглескиfirst,furst,fyrst, fromСтари Енглескиfyrst,fierst,first(“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), fromПра-Германски*frestaz,*fristiz,*frestą(“date, appointed time”), fromProto-Indo-European*pres-,*per-(“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate withNorth Frisianferst,frest(“period, time”),НемачкиFrist(“period, deadline, term”),Шведскиfrist(“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”),Icelandicfrestur(“period”). See alsofrist.
Noun
first (pluralfirsts)
- (obsolete)Time; time granted;respite.
References
- first atOneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
FromСтари Енглескиfyrest, fromПра-Западно Германски*furist, fromПра-Германски*furistaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Шаблон:enm-adj
- first
Descendants
References