beg

The act of begging; an imploring request.

To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

“He begged on the street corner from passers-by.”

To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

“He begged her to go to the prom with him.”

In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.

“What was the beginning of the dispute?”

The initial portion of some extended thing.

“That house is at the beginning of the street.”