name
Meaning 1
A surname from Hindi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
beg
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbɛɡ/ non-pre-/ɡ/-tensing
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[ˈbɛɡ] non-pre-/ɡ/-tensing
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Australian: /ˈbeɡ/
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Australian: [ˈbeɡ]
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New-Zealand: /ˈbe̝ɡ/
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New-Zealand: [ˈbe̝ɡ]
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/ˈbeɪ̯ɡ/ Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada
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[ˈbeɪ̯ɡ] Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada
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rhymes with -ɛɡ
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homophone: bag (æ-raising)
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CMU ARPABET: B EH1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The act of begging; an imploring request.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A pretentious, attention-seeking, or eccentric person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, slang
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of bey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
Examples
- Yaqub Beg (c. 1820 – 1877)
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
Abbreviation of beginning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: business, knitting, manufacturing, textiles
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verb
Meaning 6
To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
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verb
Meaning 7
To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: supplicate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 9
To obviously lack or be in need of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Examples
- A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation
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verb
Meaning 10
In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: set aside
verb
Meaning 12
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Topics: law
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verb
Meaning 13
call upon in supplication; entreat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I beg you to stop!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: implore, pray
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plead
Narrower terms: crave, supplicate, importune, insist
verb
Meaning 14
make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce
- My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: solicit, tap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: request, bespeak, call for, quest
Narrower terms: quest, canvass, canvas, lobby, buttonhole
verb
Meaning 15
dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- beg the question
- beg the point in the discussion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
verb
Meaning 16
ask to obtain free
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- beg money and food
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: request, bespeak, call for, quest
Narrower terms: schnorr, shnorr, scrounge, cadge, panhandle
History
Etymology
Various origins: * As an Islamic (Indian subcontinent as Hindi बेग (beg)) and sometimes Serbo-Croatian surname, from the Turkish title beg, an older form of bey. See Bey; also compare Baig. * Borrowed from Slovene Beg, from beg (“escape, getaway”).
Inherited from Middle English beggen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *becgian, *bedcian, syncopated forms of bedecian (“to beg”), itself of obscure origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bedukōn, a frequentative verb derived from Proto-West Germanic *bedu (“plea, petition, prayer”, whence English bead). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *bedagō (“petitioner, requester, beggar”), an agent noun from the same source. Compare North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰 (bidagwa, “beggar”). All ultimately from the root of English bid, which see for more. An alternative theory considers the verb a backformation from beggar and derives the latter from Old French begart (“kind of lay brother”).
From Proto-Turkic *bēg.
Across languages
Translations
220 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Southern Altai: бий (biy) — title — see also bey
- Arabic: بيك (bēg) — title — see also bey
- Azerbaijani: bəy — title — see also bey
- Bengali: বেগ (beg) — title — see also bey
- Bulgarian: бег (beg) — title — see also bey
- Finnish: beg — title — see also bey
- Hindi: बेग (beg) — title — see also bey
- Hungarian: bég — title — see also bey
- Kazakh: бек (bek) — title — see also bey
- Persian: بیگ (beyg) — title — see also bey
- Tajik: бек (bek) — title — see also bey
- Tatar: бәк (bäk) — title — see also bey
- Turkish: bey — title — see also bey
- Ottoman Turkish: بك (bey) — title — see also bey
- Urdu: بیگ (beg) — title — see also bey
- Uyghur: بەگ (beg) — title — see also bey
- Uzbek: bek — title — see also bey
- Afrikaans: bedel — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Amharic: ለመነ (lämänä) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Arabic: اِسْتَجْدَى (istajdā) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Arabic: تَسَوَّلَ (tasawwala) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Arabic: طر (ṭar) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Arabic: شَحَت (šaḥat) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Armenian: մուրալ (mural) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Azerbaijani: dilənmək — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Belarusian: папраша́йнічаць (paprašájničacʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Belarusian: прасі́ць (prasícʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Belarusian: жабрава́ць (žabravácʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Bulgarian: про́ся (prósja) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Bulgarian: изпро́свам (izprósvam) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Bulgarian: изпро́ся (izprósja) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Catalan: pidolar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Catalan: mendicar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Chinese Mandarin: 央求 (yāngqiú) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Chinese Mandarin: 求 (qiú) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Chinese Mandarin: 乞討 /乞讨 (qǐtǎo) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Crimean Tatar: yalvarmaq — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Czech: žebrat — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Danish: tigge — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Dutch: bedelen — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Esperanto: almozpeti — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Ewe: ɖekuku — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Faroese: bidda — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Finnish: kerjätä — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Finnish: pyytää — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Finnish: anella — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Finnish: anoa — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Finnish: kärttää — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- French: mendier — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- French: quêter — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- French: quémander — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- North Frisian: beđeri — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Friulian: cirî — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Galician: pedichar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Galician: galloufar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Galician: mendicar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Galician: aquestar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Galician: perdouxer — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Georgian: ხვეწნა (xvec̣na) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Georgian: მუდარა (mudara) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- German: betteln — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Greek: ζητιανεύω (zitianévo) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Greek: επαιτώ (epaitó) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Hebrew: ביקש \ בִּקֵּשׁ (bikésh) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Hebrew: קיבץ נדבות (kibéts n'davót) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Hindi: भीख माँगना (bhīkh māṅgnā) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Hungarian: koldul — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Hungarian: kéreget — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Icelandic: betla — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Indonesian: mengemis — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Indonesian: minta-minta — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Interlingua: mendicar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Italian: mendicare — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Italian: elemosinare — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Japanese: 請う (kou) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Khmer: សុំទាន (som tiən) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Latin: mendīcor — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Macedonian: просјачи (prosjači) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Malayalam: യാചിക്കുക (yācikkuka) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Malayalam: തെണ്ടുക (teṇṭuka) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Māori: minene — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Māori: pīnono — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Māori: pikoni — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Māori: mīnono — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Middle English: beggen — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Norwegian Bokmål: tigge — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tigga — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Occitan: mendicar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Old English: biddan — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Polish: żebrać — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Portuguese: mendigar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Romanian: cerși — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Russian: проси́ть (prosítʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Russian: попроси́ть (poprosítʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Russian: попроша́йничать (poprošájničatʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Russian: побира́ться (pobirátʹsja) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Russian: выпра́шивать (vyprášivatʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Russian: кля́нчить (kljánčitʹ) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Northern Sami: ánuhit — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Northern Sami: átnut — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Northern Sami: gearjidit — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Serbo-Croatian: про̀сити — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Serbo-Croatian: просја́чити — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Serbo-Croatian: pròsiti — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Serbo-Croatian: prosjáčiti — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Slovak: žobrať — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Slovene: beračiti — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Slovene: prosjačiti — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Spanish: mendigar — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Spanish: pordiosear — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Swedish: tigga — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Tagalog: magpalimos — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Tamil: கெஞ்சு (keñcu) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Tatar: соранырга (soranırğa) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Tatar: теләнеп сорау (telänep soraw) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Telugu: యాచించు (yāciñcu) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Thai: ขอทาน (kɔ̌ɔ-taan) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Tocharian B: yāsk- — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Turkish: yalvarmak — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Turkish: dilenmek — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Ukrainian: жебра́чити (žebráčyty) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Ukrainian: же́брати (žébraty) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Ukrainian: проси́ти (prosýty) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Uzbek: тиланмоқ (tilanmoq) — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Vietnamese: ăn xin — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Volapük: lubegön — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Welsh: cardota — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Welsh: begio — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Zazaki: ver geyren — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Zhuang: ro — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- ǃXóõ: ǁgàã — to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
- Arabic: تَسَوَّلَ (tasawwala) — to plead with someone for help
- Arabic: رَجَا (rajā) — to plead with someone for help
- Armenian: աղաչել (aġačʻel) — to plead with someone for help
- Belarusian: умо́льваць (umólʹvacʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Belarusian: малі́ць (malícʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Belarusian: блага́ць (blahácʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Belarusian: прасі́ць (prasícʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Bulgarian: мо́ля (mólja) — to plead with someone for help
- Bulgarian: умоля́вам (umoljávam) — to plead with someone for help
- Catalan: suplicar — to plead with someone for help
- Catalan: pregar — to plead with someone for help
- Chinese Mandarin: 央求 (yāngqiú) — to plead with someone for help
- Chinese Mandarin: 求 (qiú) — to plead with someone for help
- Czech: prosit — to plead with someone for help
- Danish: bede — to plead with someone for help
- Danish: bønfalde — to plead with someone for help
- Dutch: smeken — to plead with someone for help
- Esperanto: petegi — to plead with someone for help
- Ewe: ɖekuku — to plead with someone for help
- Finnish: kerjätä — to plead with someone for help
- Finnish: pyytää — to plead with someone for help
- Finnish: anella — to plead with someone for help
- Finnish: anoa — to plead with someone for help
- Finnish: kärttää — to plead with someone for help
- French: implorer — to plead with someone for help
- French: supplier — to plead with someone for help
- Galician: pregar — to plead with someone for help
- Galician: ladar — to plead with someone for help
- Galician: deprecar — to plead with someone for help
- Galician: questar — to plead with someone for help
- Galician: pianchar — to plead with someone for help
- Galician: medear — to plead with someone for help
- German: anflehen — to plead with someone for help
- German: bitten — to plead with someone for help
- Greek: ικετεύω (iketévo) — to plead with someone for help
- Ancient Greek: ἱκετεύω (hiketeúō) — to plead with someone for help
- Ancient Greek: δέω (déō) — to plead with someone for help
- Hebrew: הִתְחַנֵּן (hitkhanén) — to plead with someone for help
- Hungarian: könyörög — to plead with someone for help
- Ido: suplikar — to plead with someone for help
- Indonesian: minta — to plead with someone for help
- Indonesian: mohon — to plead with someone for help
- Interlingua: implorar — to plead with someone for help
- Italian: implorare — to plead with someone for help
- Italian: pregare — to plead with someone for help
- Japanese: 頼む (tanomu) — to plead with someone for help
- Japanese: 拝み倒す (ogamitaosu) — to plead with someone for help
- Korean: 부탁하다 (butakhada) — to plead with someone for help
- Korean: 빌다 (bilda) — to plead with someone for help
- Korean: 탄원하다 (tanwonhada) — to plead with someone for help
- Korean: 구걸하다 (gugeolhada) — to plead with someone for help
- Korean: 간청하다 (gancheonghada) — to plead with someone for help
- Korean: 애원하다 (aewonhada) — to plead with someone for help
- Latin: rogo — to plead with someone for help
- Latin: obsecrō — to plead with someone for help
- Lombard: pregà — to plead with someone for help
- Macedonian: моли (moli) — to plead with someone for help
- Macedonian: преколнува (prekolnuva) — to plead with someone for help
- Middle English: beggen — to plead with someone for help
- Occitan: suplicar — to plead with someone for help
- Occitan: pregar — to plead with someone for help
- Polish: błagać — to plead with someone for help
- Portuguese: suplicar — to plead with someone for help
- Portuguese: implorar — to plead with someone for help
- Romanian: ruga — to plead with someone for help
- Russian: умоля́ть (umoljátʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Russian: моли́ть (molítʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Russian: проси́ть (prosítʹ) — to plead with someone for help
- Serbo-Croatian: мо̀лити — to plead with someone for help
- Serbo-Croatian: замо̀лити — to plead with someone for help
- Serbo-Croatian: mòliti — to plead with someone for help
- Serbo-Croatian: zamòliti — to plead with someone for help
- Slovak: prosiť — to plead with someone for help
- Slovene: prositi — to plead with someone for help
- Spanish: suplicar — to plead with someone for help
- Spanish: rogar — to plead with someone for help
- Spanish: deprecar — to plead with someone for help
- Swedish: be — to plead with someone for help
- Swedish: bönfalla — to plead with someone for help
- Tamil: கெஞ்சு (keñcu) — to plead with someone for help
- Thai: ขอร้อง (kɔ̌ɔ-rɔ́ɔng) — to plead with someone for help
- Ukrainian: блага́ти (blaháty) — to plead with someone for help
- Ukrainian: моли́ти (molýty) — to plead with someone for help
- Ukrainian: проси́ти (prosýty) — to plead with someone for help
- Vietnamese: khẩn cầu — to plead with someone for help
- Volapük: begön — to plead with someone for help
- Welsh: deisyf — to plead with someone for help
- Welsh: pledio — to plead with someone for help
- ǃXóõ: ǁgàã — to plead with someone for help