begとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Inherited from Middle English beggen, of uncertain origin, possibly from 古期英語 *becgian, *bedcian, syncopated variants of bedecian (“to beg”), from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bedą, *bedō (“prayer; request”). Compare North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic �������������� (bidagwa, “beggar”), 古期英語 biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead. See Norwegian Bokmål be (“beg, ask”).

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.

   Synonym: supplicate

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

   He begged her to go to the prom with him.

   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     you do beg your good will in this case.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 27:58:

     [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) 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.

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語

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

名詞

beg (複数形 begs)

1. The act of begging; an imploring request.
   • 2008, Cathy Gohlke, William Henry is a Fine Name/I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires Set:

     “Lord,” I prayed, “it's a long time since I came to You for anything besides a quick beg for help. And it seems every time I come to You I'm asking something bigger, more impossible. But I'm here again. […]

参考

• beggar

語源 2

From Ottoman Turkish بك‎ (beg).

名詞

beg (複数形 begs)

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

名詞

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.

アナグラム

• GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge