Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: bekendstelling
- Amharic: initiation
- Arabic: بدء
- Azerbaijani: ithaf
- Bashkir: бағышланған
- Belarusian: прысвячэнне
- Bulgarian: посвещение
- Bengali: দীক্ষা
- Bosnian: inicijacija
- Catalan: iniciació
- Cebuano: initiation
- Czech: zahájení
- Welsh: cychwyn
- Danish: indledning
- German: Einleitung
- Greek: έναρξη
- Esperanto: iniciato
- Spanish: iniciación
- Estonian: algatamine
- Basque: inicio
- Persian: شروع
- Finnish: aloittamista
- French: initiation
- Irish: a thionscnamh
- Scottish Gaelic: faighinn eòlas
- Galician: iniciación
- Gujarati: પ્રારંભ
- Hebrew: חניכה
- Hindi: दीक्षा
- Croatian: inicijacija
- Haitian: inisyasyon
- Hungarian: beavatás
- Armenian: նվիրում
- Indonesian: inisiasi
- Icelandic: upphaf
- Italian: iniziazione
- Japanese: 開始
- Javanese: wiwitan
- Georgian: ინიცირება
- Kazakh: арнау
- Khmer: ផ្តួចផ្តើម
- Kannada: inicio
- Korean: 개시
- Kyrgyz: посвящение
- Latin: initiationis
- Luxembourgish: Introductioun
- Lao: ການເລີ່ມຕົ້ນ
- Lithuanian: inicijavimą
- Latvian: uzsākšana
- Malagasy: firosoana
- Mari: посвящение
- Maori: tomokanga
- Macedonian: иницијација
- Malayalam: സമാരംഭം
- Mongolian: эхлүүлэх
- Marathi: दीक्षा
- Hill Mari: посвящение
- Malay: permulaan
- Maltese: il-bidu
- Burmese: စတင်
- Nepali: सूत्रपात
- Dutch: initiatie
- Norwegian: initiation
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ੁਰੂਆਤ
- Papiamento: ubicacion
- Polish: dedykacja
- Portuguese: iniciação
- Romanian: inițierea
- Russian: посвящение
- Sinhalese: ආරම්භක
- Slovak: zasvätenie
- Slovenian: začetek
- Albanian: fillimi
- Serbian: посвета
- Sundanese: inisiasi
- Swedish: initiation
- Swahili: kufundwa
- Tamil: தீட்சை
- Telugu: దీక్షా
- Tajik: бахшидани
- Thai: การรับน้อง
- Tagalog: pagtanggap sa bagong kasapi
- Turkish: başlatma
- Tatar: посвящение
- Udmurt: священнике
- Ukrainian: посвята
- Urdu: شروع
- Uzbek: boshlanishi
- Vietnamese: bắt đầu
- Xhosa: iimali
- Yiddish: האַסכאָלע
- Chinese: 启动
Synonyms, close and similar words for initiation
- ordination
- baptism
- consecration
- trigger
- beginning
- triggering
- origination
- introduction
- creation
- foundation
- founding
- institution
- start
- inauguration
- inaugural