Rookie

Noun

 * 1) An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
 * 2) A novice.
 * 3) An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
 * 4) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

Synonyms

 * beginner
 * newbie, new boy
 * noob
 * tyro
 * See also Thesaurus:beginner

Adjective

 * 1) non-professional; amateur
 * The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.

Thesaurus
abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, deb, debutant, draft, drafted man, draftee, emigrant, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, levy, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, selectee, settler, squatter, stowaway, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, upstart

Etymology
Thought to be an alteration of recruit:.

Another reasonable origin is broekie: (short for broekvent:), a common term for a shipmate.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: новобранец
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian: салага


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: beginneling, nieuwkomer
 * Finnish:, , keltanokka
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:, новак
 * Russian: новичок
 * Spanish: