verb

• (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  "He begged on the street corner from passers-by."
• (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
  "I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence."
• (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
  "The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms."
• (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
  "A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation"

noun

• (history) Alternative form of bey.
  "Yaqub Beg (c. 1820 – 1877)"

noun

• (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
  "Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg."