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.

   • 2019 October 8, Christina Maxouris and Doug Criss, “Everything you wanted to know about Yom Kippur”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness.

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