بَدَايَةٌ beginning in Arabic
بَدَايَةٌ is how you say “beginning” in Arabic.
Root ب د ي b-d-y. noun. badāyah.
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Meaning of beginning in Arabic
- beginning, start, commencement used in the same sense as بَدْءٌ (badʾ), the more classical noun from the separate root بدأ
Example sentence
وهكذا يصبح الصمتُ بدايةَ البلاغة، لا نقيضَها؛
Thus, silence becomes the beginning of eloquence, not its opposite;
بَدَايَةَ the beginning of
'the beginning / start,' in the -a form because 'becomes' forces its predicate there. It heads an 'of' pair with 'eloquence': silence becomes the START of eloquent speech, not its opposite.
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How it is used
This noun is bound up with the verb بَدِيتُ, a dialectal form used by the Ansár for "I began," in place of the more standard بَدَأْتُ / اِبْتَدَأْتُ. Lexicographers disagreed sharply on the status of the noun itself: Muṭarrizī labelled it vulgar and Ibn Barrī called it erroneous, while Ibn al-Qattāʿ defended it as authentic Ansári usage — so classical sources treat it as a dialectal counterpart to بَدْءٌ rather than the fully standard literary noun.
Words from the same root
- بَدِيتُ I began, started (with something) — a dialectal variant of بَدَأْتُ, said to be used only by the Ansár
- بِدَايَةٌ a beginning — the same noun in its more common vocalisation; some grammarians (e.g. Muṭarrizī) called it a vulgar or erroneous form, while Ibn al-Qattāʿ held it to be genuine Ansári dialect
Common questions
- How do you say "beginning" in Arabic?
- بَدَايَةٌ (badāyah).
- Is بَدَايَةٌ the same as بَدْءٌ?
- It carries the same meaning, "beginning," but comes from a different root (بدي rather than بدأ); Lane's notes it as a dialectal form some grammarians disputed and others attributed to the Ansár.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).