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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English beggen, assimilation from Old English *becgan, *bedcan, *bedican, syncopated variants of bedecian (“to beg”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bed?, *bed? (“prayer; request”). Related to North Frisian b?dagi (“to pray”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead. See Norwegian Bokmål be (“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

   • [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.

   • 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' [...]

3. (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
4. (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

   Antonym: set aside

5. (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
   • a. 1612, John Harington, Epigrams

     Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• beg the question
• beg to differ
• go begging
• soft begging

Translations

Noun

beg (plural begs)

1. The act of begging; an imploring request.

See also

• beggar

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).

Noun

beg (plural begs)

2. A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

beg

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
   • 2005, DRG Dynamic Resource, House of White Birches, Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone (page 34)

     Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.

Further reading

• beg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?x/
• Hyphenation: beg

Noun

beg m (plural begs)

1. (historical) Alternative form of bei.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag.

Noun

beg (Jawi spelling ???)

1. bag

Manx

Etymology

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

Adjective

beg (plural beggey, comparative loo, superlative sloo)

1. small

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (“ruler”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bê?/

Noun

b?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) master, lord

Declension

Derived terms

• bekstvo
• bežanje
• prebeg

References

• “beg” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *b?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bé?k/

Noun

b??g m inan

1. run
2. getaway
3. escape
4. withdrawal
5. (phrase) flight

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Turkish bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bé?k/

Noun

b??g 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 ? (MC b?æk?).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pe?k?/
• Tone numbers: beg⁸
• Hyphenation: beg

Adjective

beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)

1. (bound) white

Adverb

beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?r??, IPA^(key): /?b????/
• (General American) enPR: bär??, IPA^(key): /?b??o?/
• (Canada) enPR: bôr??, IPA^(key): /?b??o?/
• Rhymes: -????

Etymology 1

From Middle English borwen, bor?ien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erg?- (“to take care”). Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.

Alternative forms

• boro (Jamaican English)

Verb

borrow (third-person singular simple present borrows, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed)

1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
2. To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
3. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

   to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
4. (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
5. (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
6. (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
7. (double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
8. To feign or counterfeit.
9. (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
   • Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)

     But if ony maiden would borrow me,

     I would wed her wi' a ring,

     And a' my land and a' my houses,

     They should a' be at her command.

10. (informal) To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.

Synonyms

• (adopt): adopt, use

Antonyms

• (receive temporarily): give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership)
• (in arithmetic): carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)

Derived terms

• borrowed time
• borrower

Translations

Noun

borrow (plural borrows)

1. (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

   This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.

2. (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
   • 1979, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin

     As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows.

3. (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above).

Noun

borrow (plural borrows)

1. (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
2. (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.