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Definitions and meaning of beg

beg

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /bɛɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English beggen, of uncertain origin, possibly from Old English *becgian, *bedcian, syncopated variants of bedecian (“to beg”), itself of obscure origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bedukōn, a frequentative verb derived from Proto-West Germanic *bedu (“petition, plea”). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *bedagō, from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bedą, *bedō (“prayer; request”). Compare North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰 (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead. See also Norwegian Bokmål be (“to beg, ask”).

Verb

beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)

  1. (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  2. (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
    Synonym: supplicate
  3. (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
  4. (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
  5. (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
  6. (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
    Antonym: set aside
  7. (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
Usage notes

This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms
Translations

Noun

beg (plural begs)

  1. The act of begging; an imploring request.

See also

  • beggar

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *bēg.

Noun

beg (plural begs)

  2. (history) Alternative form of bey
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

beg

  1. (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.

Further reading

  • beg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeɡ/
  • Rhymes: -eɡ

Noun

beg (plural begj or beglerë, definite begu)

  1. Alternative form of bej

References

  • “beg,~u”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 121a
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bej”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 73
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “beg”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 24b
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “bek-gu”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 31

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (beg).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛx/
  • Hyphenation: beg

Noun

beg m (plural begs)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of bei.

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛɡ/

Noun

beg

  1. bag

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag.

Pronunciation

Noun

beg (Jawi spelling بيݢ)

  1. bag

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bec, from Proto-Celtic *biggos (“small”).

Adjective

beg (plural beggey, comparative loo, superlative sloo)

  1. small

Mutation

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běgъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bêːɡ/

Noun

bȇg m (Cyrillic spelling бе̑г)

  1. escape

Declension

Derived terms

  • bekstvo
  • bežanje
  • prebeg

References

  • “beg” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *běgъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /béːk/

Noun

bẹ̑g m inan

  1. run
  2. getaway
  3. escape
  4. withdrawal
  5. (phrase) flight
    Planiti v beg ― To take flight
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Turkish bey.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /béːk/

Noun

bẹ̑g m anim

  1. bey (Turkish governor)
Inflection

Further reading

  • “beg”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English beg.

Noun

beg (nominative plural begs)

  1. request, an action of begging

Declension

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 白 (MC baek).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /peːk˧/
  • Tone numbers: beg8
  • Hyphenation: beg

Adjective

beg (Sawndip form 白, 1957–1982 spelling beg)

  1. (bound) white

Adverb

beg (Sawndip form 白, 1957–1982 spelling beg)

  1. in vain; for nothing
  2. for free; free of charge

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