beg

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.

I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.

He begged her to go to the prom with him.

To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.

To obviously lack or be in need of something.

A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation

The colors in this cell are as dull as its architects must have been. An endless expanse of drab-green textured walls, contrasting with the gray concrete floor. It begs redecoration.

In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

The act of begging; an imploring request.

“Lord,” I prayed, “it's a long time since I came to You for anything besides a quick beg for help. And it seems every time I come to You I'm asking something bigger, more impossible. But I'm here again. […]

Alternative form of bey.

Yaqub Beg (c. 1820 – 1877)