Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: aanvanklike
- Amharic: መነሻ
- Arabic: الأولي
- Azerbaijani: ilkin
- Bashkir: башланғыс
- Belarusian: пачатковая
- Bulgarian: начална
- Bengali: প্রাথমিক
- Bosnian: početni
- Catalan: inicial
- Cebuano: sa inisyal nga
- Czech: počáteční
- Welsh: cychwynnol
- Danish: indledende
- German: erste
- Greek: αρχική
- Esperanto: komenca
- Spanish: inicial
- Estonian: esialgne
- Basque: hasierako
- Persian: اولیه
- Finnish: alkuperäinen
- French: initiale
- Irish: tosaigh
- Scottish Gaelic: initial
- Galician: inicial
- Gujarati: પ્રારંભિક
- Hebrew: ראשוני
- Hindi: प्रारंभिक
- Croatian: početna
- Haitian: premye
- Hungarian: kezdő
- Armenian: սակարկելի
- Indonesian: awal
- Icelandic: fyrstu
- Italian: iniziale
- Japanese: 初期
- Javanese: dhisikan
- Georgian: საწყის
- Kazakh: бастауыш
- Khmer: ដំបូង
- Kannada: ಆರಂಭಿಕ
- Korean: 초기
- Kyrgyz: баштапкы
- Latin: prima
- Luxembourgish: éischt
- Lao: ເບື້ອງຕົ້ນ
- Lithuanian: pradinis
- Latvian: sākotnējā
- Malagasy: voalohany
- Mari: тӱҥалтыш
- Maori: tuatahi
- Macedonian: почетна
- Malayalam: പ്രാരംഭ
- Mongolian: эхний
- Marathi: प्रारंभिक
- Hill Mari: тӹнгӓлтӹш
- Malay: awal
- Maltese: inizjali
- Burmese: ကနဦး
- Nepali: सुरुमा
- Dutch: eerste
- Norwegian: innledende
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ੁਰੂਆਤੀ
- Papiamento: inicia
- Polish: początkowa
- Portuguese: inicial
- Romanian: inițial
- Russian: начальная
- Sinhalese: මූලික
- Slovak: počiatočné
- Slovenian: začetna
- Albanian: fillestar
- Serbian: основна
- Sundanese: awal
- Swedish: första
- Swahili: awali
- Tamil: ஆரம்ப
- Telugu: ప్రారంభ
- Tajik: аввал
- Thai: เริ่มต้น
- Tagalog: paunang
- Turkish: ilk
- Tatar: башлангыч
- Udmurt: начальной
- Ukrainian: початкова
- Urdu: ابتدائی
- Uzbek: dastlabki
- Vietnamese: ban đầu
- Xhosa: sokuqala
- Yiddish: ערשט
- Chinese: 初始
Synonyms, close and similar words for initial
- starting
- early
- first
- the first
- original
- primary
- basic
- initiatory
- introductory
- beginning
- opening
- inaugural
- incipient
- pioneer
- premier
- virgin
- maiden
- drop cap
- foremost