beg
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English beggen, assimilation from Old English *bedican, syncopated variant of bedecian (“to beg”). Related to Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰 (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead.
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beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)
- (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- He begged on the street corner from passersby.
- (transitive) to plead with someone for help or for a favor
- He begged her to go to the prom with him.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'...
- (transitive) to assume, in the phrase beg the question
- (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question
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- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
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- (raise a question): set aside
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to request the help of someone, ask for money
to supplicate, to plead with someone for help
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Turkish beg.
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beg (plural begs)
- a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey
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From Old Irish bec.
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beg (plural beggey)
[edit] Slovene
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beg m.
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From English beg.
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beg (plural begs)
- request, an action of begging
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