begとは

語源 1

From Middle English beggen, assimilation from 古期英語 *becgan, *bedcan, *bedican, syncopated variants of 古期英語 bedecian (“to beg”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bedą, *bedō (“prayer; request”). Related to North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic �������������� (bidagwa, “beggar”), 古期英語 biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead.

動詞

beg (三人称単数 現在形 begs, 現在分詞 begging, 過去形および過去分詞形 begged)

1. (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money

   He begged on the street corner from passers-by.

2. (transitive) to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat

   I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.

   He begged her to go to the prom with him.

   • Shakespeare

     I do beg your good will in this case.

   • Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58

     [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) to assume, in the phrase beg the question
4. (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question
5. (law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
   • Harrington

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

使用する際の注意点

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

反意語

• (raise a question): set aside

派生語

• beg the question
• go begging
• beg to differ

参考

• beggar

語源 2

From Ottoman Turkish بك‎ (beg).

名詞

beg (複数形 begs)

1. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey

略語

beg

1. (knitting) 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.

アナグラム

• GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge