beggar

Etymology
From, , , from , equivalent to.

Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from , with pejorative suffix (see ); the order is said to be named after the priest of  (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).

Noun

 * 1) A person who begs.
 * 2) * 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
 * Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.
 * 1) A person suffering from extreme poverty.
 * 2)  A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
 * 3)   bugger.
 * 1)  A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
 * 2)   bugger.
 * 1)   bugger.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , see also Thesaurus:beggar
 * ,, , see also Thesaurus:pauper

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سَائِل
 * Egyptian Arabic: شحات
 * Hijazi Arabic: شَحَّات
 * Moroccan Arabic: سعاي, طلاب
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: tsiritor, tsiritonj, tsiripãni, dicunjar, proseac, pitaci, zicljar
 * Asturian: méndigu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Baluchi: پکیر, فقیر, پنڈوک
 * Bashkir: хәйерсе
 * Belarusian: жабра́к, жабра́чка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:, просяки́ня
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: beggyer
 * Czech:, žebračka
 * Danish:, tiggerske , betler, betlerske
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: almozulo, almozulino, almozisto, almozistino
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: biddari
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Galician:, mendiga, mendicante
 * Georgian: მათხოვარი
 * German:, , Bettelmann, Bettelfrau, , Bettelbruder, Bettelschwester , Pracher, Pracherin
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: ἐπαίτης, προσαίτης
 * Hebrew: קַבּצָן
 * Hindi:, , , , भिखारिन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, beiningamaður
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: keräjä, kerrääläin
 * Irish:, sirtheoir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: អ្នកសុំទាន
 * Korean: 걸개(乞丐),, 걸인(乞人)
 * Lao: ຄົນຂໍທານ
 * Latin: mendīcus
 * Latvian: ubags, ubadze
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: питач, питачка, просјак, просјачка
 * Malay: pengemis
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: tallab
 * Manchu: ᡤᡳᠣᡥᠣᡨᠣ
 * Manx: jeirkagh
 * Marathi: भिकारी
 * Middle English: beggere
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: adókeedí
 * Ngazidja Comorian: mmezi
 * Norman: bédgeux, pouqu'teux
 * North Frisian:
 * Föhr-Amrum: beedler, trögel, beedelmaan
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tigger,, betlerske
 * Nynorsk: tiggar
 * Pali: yācaka
 * Devanagari: याचक
 * Thai: ยาจก
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Pracha
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਮੰਗਤਾ, ਮੰਗਤੀ
 * Romani: čororo
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: baigear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: про̏сја̄к, просја̀киња
 * Roman: ,
 * Shan: ၵူၼ်းယွၼ်း
 * Sicilian: addumanneri, addumannera
 * Slovak: žobrák, žobráčka
 * Slovene:, beračica
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Sranan Tongo: begiman
 * Swahili:, ombaomba
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tagalog: pulubi, tanglo
 * Tajik: гадо
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྤྲང་པོ
 * Tocharian B: yaṣṣuca
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: диленчи
 * Ukrainian: жебра́к, жебра́чка
 * Urdu: بِھکاری, بِھکھاری, یاچَک, بِھکْشُک
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:,  hilubegan,  jilubegan,  ,  hilubeganef,  jilubeganef
 * Welsh: achenog
 * Yakut: умнаһыт
 * Zhuang: gaujvaq


 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: فَقِير
 * Bashkir: ярлы
 * Belarusian: бяда́к, бяда́чка, бе́дны, бе́дная, бядня́к, бядня́чка
 * Bulgarian:, бедня́чка, , сиромахки́ня
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, chudačka
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian:
 * Latvian: ubags
 * Macedonian: питач, питачка, просјак, просјачка
 * Middle English: beggere
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: čororo
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , , , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: про̏сја̄к, просја̀киња, сиро̀ма̄х, сирома̀шица
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sicilian: disgrazziatu, ,
 * Slovak: chudák
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, , сірома́ха, , , , , бі́дна


 * Telugu: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
 * 2)  To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: дока́рвам до про́сяшка тоя́га
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: