まず隗より始めよ

まずかいよりはじめよ

start with the first step, when embarking on a great project, start with immediate steps

始め

はじめ

beginning, start, outset, opening

知り始める

しりはじめる

to begin to know

降り始める

ふりはじめる

to begin to fall (rain, etc.)

散り始める

ちりはじめる

to begin falling (e.g. leaves, petals, etc.)

やり始める

やりはじめる

to start; to start up; to embark on; to get going; to commence

出始め

ではじめ

first appearance (of the season)

事始め

ことはじめ

taking up a new line of work, the beginning of things

姫始め

ひめはじめ

eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii)

見始め

みはじめ

seeing for the first time, first sight

始める

はじめる

to start, to begin, to commence, to initiate, to originate

始めは

はじめは

at first, in the beginning, originally

手始め

てはじめ

outset, start, beginning

より

than

集め始める

あつめはじめる

to begin to catch (attention, etc.), to begin to collect

歌会始め

うたかいはじめ かかいはじめ

annual New Year's poetry reading

始めから

はじめから

from the beginning

出始める

ではじめる

to begin to appear, to begin to come in

仕事始め

しごとはじめ

resuming work after the New Year's vacation, first time that one works in the year