ask for

English

Verb

ask for (third-person singular simple present asks for, present participle asking for, simple past and past participle asked for)

1. To request.

   I asked for a glass of water.

2. To increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite.

   If you keep on speeding, you are asking for trouble.

Synonyms

• request

Derived terms

• ask for the moon
• ask for seconds

Translations

request

• Arabic: سَأَلَ (ar) (saʔala), طَلَبَ (ar) (ṭalaba)

  Egyptian Arabic: طلب (ṭalab)

  South Levantine Arabic: طلب (ṭálab)

• Azerbaijani: istəmək (az), xahiş etmək
• Basque: eskatu
• Catalan: demanar (ca)
• Czech: požádat (cs) o (accusative)
• Egyptian: (dbḥ)
• Esperanto: peti (eo)
• Estonian: paluma
• Finnish: pyytää (fi)
• French: demander (fr)
• Greek: ζητώ (el) (zitó)

  Ancient: αἰτέω (aitéō)

• Hebrew: ביקש (bikésh)
• Hungarian: kér (hu)
• Italian: chiedere (it)
• Lao: ຂໍ (lo) (khǭ)
• Latin: petō (la), poscō, requīrō (la)
• Latvian: lūgt (lv), prasīt
• Old Saxon: ābiddian
• Persian: درخواست کردن (fa)
• Portuguese: pedir (pt)
• Quechua: mañay
• Russian: проси́ть (ru) (prosítʹ)
• Spanish: pedir (es)
• Swedish: fråga efter
• Turkish: istemek (tr)

to invite upon oneself

• Cantonese: 搏 (bok³)
• Russian: напра́шиваться (ru) (naprášivatʹsja)

See also

• beg