Beg Definition
A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.
(knitting) Beginning.
- Used to introduce a polite request.
- To assume to be true what one is purporting to prove in an argument.
- To call to mind a question in a discussion; invite or provoke a question.
- To disagree in a polite manner.
- to ask to be released from some obligation
- to use an argument that assumes as proved the very thing one is trying to prove
- to evade the issue
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Beg
Origin of Beg
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From Middle English beggen, assimilation from Old English *bedican, syncopated variant of bedecian (“to beg”). Related to Gothic (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English beggen possibly from Anglo-Norman begger from Old French begart lay brother, one who prays beggar
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Turkish beg.
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