başlangıç

From Ottoman Turkish باشلانغیچ (başlangıç), unattested in Turkish until the second half of the XIXth century. Compare, however, Old Turkic [script needed] (başlaġuçı, “one who begins”).^[1] Related to Turkish başlamak (“to begin”).

• IPA^(key): [baʃɫanɡɯt͡ʃ]
• Hyphenation: baş‧lan‧gıç

başlangıç (definite accusative başlangıcı, plural başlangıçlar)

1. beginning
2. start

• iftitah (obsolete)
• mukaddime (literature, dated)

• bitiş

• başlama