beg

noun

The act of begging; an imploring request.

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

   He begged on the street corner from passers-by.

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

   He begged her to go to the prom with him.

3. In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
4. In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
5. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

noun

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

1. 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.
2. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
3. That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.

   What was the beginning of the dispute?

4. The initial portion of some extended thing.

   That house is at the beginning of the street.