prasīt

Etymology
From an earlier, perhaps the iterative form of an unattested or  (the modern iterative form is , dialectal ), from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< 🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1) to ask for, to request, to demand to express the desire to obtain something
 * 2) to require, to demand to set rules for behavior
 * 3) to require, to demand to need for its existence; to cause necessarily
 * 4) to ask to request information with a question; to try to find out
 *  “kad nāksi atkal skolā?” skolēni Mamedam prasa... “kad ciema dārzos izbeigsies vīnogas”, atteic Mameds — “when are you going back to school?” the students ask Mameds... “when they run out of grapes in the village gardens,” Mameds answered
 * “kas man traucē?” beidzot viņš ierunājās... “kāpēc jūs vēl prasāt?... neesat taču svešinieks šinī pusē” — “what is stopping me?” he finally exlaimed... “why do you still ask? after all you're not a stranger around here”
 * 1) to require, to demand to set rules for behavior
 * 2) to require, to demand to need for its existence; to cause necessarily
 * 3) to ask to request information with a question; to try to find out
 *  “kad nāksi atkal skolā?” skolēni Mamedam prasa... “kad ciema dārzos izbeigsies vīnogas”, atteic Mameds — “when are you going back to school?” the students ask Mameds... “when they run out of grapes in the village gardens,” Mameds answered
 * “kas man traucē?” beidzot viņš ierunājās... “kāpēc jūs vēl prasāt?... neesat taču svešinieks šinī pusē” — “what is stopping me?” he finally exlaimed... “why do you still ask? after all you're not a stranger around here”
 * 1) to ask to request information with a question; to try to find out
 *  “kad nāksi atkal skolā?” skolēni Mamedam prasa... “kad ciema dārzos izbeigsies vīnogas”, atteic Mameds — “when are you going back to school?” the students ask Mameds... “when they run out of grapes in the village gardens,” Mameds answered
 * “kas man traucē?” beidzot viņš ierunājās... “kāpēc jūs vēl prasāt?... neesat taču svešinieks šinī pusē” — “what is stopping me?” he finally exlaimed... “why do you still ask? after all you're not a stranger around here”
 * 1) to ask to request information with a question; to try to find out
 *  “kad nāksi atkal skolā?” skolēni Mamedam prasa... “kad ciema dārzos izbeigsies vīnogas”, atteic Mameds — “when are you going back to school?” the students ask Mameds... “when they run out of grapes in the village gardens,” Mameds answered
 * “kas man traucē?” beidzot viņš ierunājās... “kāpēc jūs vēl prasāt?... neesat taču svešinieks šinī pusē” — “what is stopping me?” he finally exlaimed... “why do you still ask? after all you're not a stranger around here”
 *  “kad nāksi atkal skolā?” skolēni Mamedam prasa... “kad ciema dārzos izbeigsies vīnogas”, atteic Mameds — “when are you going back to school?” the students ask Mameds... “when they run out of grapes in the village gardens,” Mameds answered
 * “kas man traucē?” beidzot viņš ierunājās... “kāpēc jūs vēl prasāt?... neesat taču svešinieks šinī pusē” — “what is stopping me?” he finally exlaimed... “why do you still ask? after all you're not a stranger around here”

Derived terms

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