From en.wiktionary.org:
[Ask]
** Translingual
*** Etymology
[mul] [mul] or a [mul] [mul].
*** Symbol
[mul-symbol]
1. [3]
*** See also
- [ask]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [ăks] , [en]
- [en]
- [en] [some dialects]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [stq], [fy],
[nl], [de], [ru], [sa] (whence [hi].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To request or petition .
1. [en] To [en] (information, or an answer to a question ).
2. [en] To [en] or enquire of (a person).
3. [en] To request (an item or service); _see also _ ASK FOR '' .
4. * [Matthew]
5. * [en]
6. [en] To request (someone to do something).
7. To request permission (to do something ).
2. To [en] (a question) to be answered.
3. * [John]
4. To require , demand , claim , or expect , whether by way of remuneration or return , or as a matter of necessity .
5. * {{ RQ:Addison Italy
|passage=But in any Exigence of State, like that they are now pressed with, it
certainly ASKS a much longer time to conduct any Design, for the Good of the
Common-wealth, to its Maturity and Perfection.}}
1. To invite .
2. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
3. [en] To take (a person's situation) as an example.
4. * [en]
***** Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the _to infinitive_ . See Appendix:English catenative verbs
- Pronouncing ask as /æks/ or /ɑːks/ is a common example of metathesis (attested since the Old English period) and still common in some varieties of English, notably African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Multicultural London English (MLE).
- The action expressed by the verb _ask_ can also be expressed by the noun-verb combination _pose a question_ .
***** Conjugation
{{en-conj |pres_1sg2=aks |pres_1sg2_qual=note1 |past_1sg2=aksed
|past_1sg2_qual=note1 |pres_3sg3=aks |pres_3sg3_qual=note1 |pres_3sg4=akses
|pres_3sg4_qual=note1 |past_3sg2=aksed |past_3sg2_qual=note1 |pres_pl2=asken
|pres_pl2_qual=archaic |past_pl2=aksed |past_pl2_qual=note1 |pres_ptc2=aksing
|pres_ptc2_qual=note1 |past_ptc2=aksed |past_ptc2_qual=note1 |note1=Dialectal.
|old=1 }}
***** Hyponyms
- [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en |ask after|ask me anything |ask around |ask for |ask in|ask
back|askability|askable|askee|askhole|misask|reask|unask |ask out|ask the
impossible |ask over|asking rate|depends who's asking |ask round |for the
asking |no questions asked |outask |I ask you|I thought you'd never ask|ask
box|ask for it|ask for someone's hand in marriage|ask for the moon|ask for
trouble|ask how high when someone says jump|ask me one about sport|ask me one
on sport|ask my arse|ask the question|don't ask|don't ask me|if you ask
me|it's better to ask forgiveness than permission|it's easier to ask
forgiveness than to get permission|never ask the barber if you need a
haircut|shoot first and ask questions later|who's asking|asking for a friend}}
***** Translations
{{multitrans|data= [request an answer]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii] , [aii]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Berbice Creole Dutch: [brc]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Central Atlas Tamazight: [tzm]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chickasaw: [cic] , [cic] , [cic] , [cic]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [eine Frage] [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Guyanese Creole English: [gyn]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Hunsrik: [hrx]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Isoko: [iso]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Jamaican Creole: [jam] , [jam] , [jam]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] [humble] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Jeju: [jje] , [jje] [humble]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Konkani: [kok]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] [humble]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Low German:
- Lü: [khb]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Middle High German: [gmh]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- North Frisian:
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Northern Thai: [nod]
- Norwegian:
- Nupe: [nup]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Old Dutch: [odt]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang] , [ang]
- Old Frisian: [ofs] , [ofs]
- Old High German: [goh]
- Old Javanese: [kaw] , [kaw]
- Old Norse: [non] , [non]
- Old Saxon: [osx]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [+ [ru]]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Saterland Frisian: [stq]
- Scots: [sco] , [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Chile]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Tashelhit: [shi]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy] , [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yaghnobi: [yai]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo] , [yo]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [zu] , [zu] , [zu] , [zu]
- Zyphe: [zyp]
[trans-bottom]
[make a request]
- Aghwan: [xag]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii] , [aii]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chickasaw: [cic] , [cic] , [cic] , [cic]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old High German: [goh]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Scots: [sco] , [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zulu: [zu] , [zu] , [zu] , [zu]
[trans-bottom] }}
**** Noun
[en-noun] [en]
1. An act or instance of asking.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. Something asked or asked for.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2008 | author=Doug Fields; Duffy Robbins | title=Speaking to Teenagers
|passage=Communication researchers call this the foot-in-the-door syndrome.
Essentially it's based on the observation that people who respond positively
to a small “ ASK” are more likely to respond to a bigger “ ASK” later on.}}
1. An asking price .
2. [en] A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr , which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2017 | author=Abigail Oakley | editor=Isabel K. Düsterhöft; Paul G. Nixon | chapter=Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr | title=Sex in the Digital Age | pageurl=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sex_in_the_Digital_Age/NR0xDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22asks%22+tumblr&pg=PT120 | page=unnumbered
|passage=Answering 'ASKS' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers
interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these
ASKS that I examine community building practices.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2018 | editor=Amanda Ochsner; William G. Tierney; Zoë B. Corwin | author=Lynette Kvasny; Fay Cobb Payton | chapter=African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes | title=Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Diversifying_Digital_Learning/F9lLDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22an+ask%22+tumblr&pg=PA162 | page=168
|passage=The following example from _Black Mental Health_ illustrates an ASK
from an anonymous follower seeking social support: [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2020 | editor=Alexander Cho; Allison McCracken; Indira N. Hoch; Louisa Stein | author=Lee Brown | chapter=Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr | title=A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/a_tumblr_book/n7UCEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22asks%22+tumblr&pg=PA265 | page=265
|passage=Once the number of unanswered ASKS in the inbox was over eight
thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a
year.}}
1. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** Etymology 2
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], a compound of [gem-pro] +
[gem-pro]. Cognate of [de].
**** Alternative forms
- [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An eft ; newt .
2. * [en]
3. [en] A lizard .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1951 | author=Malcolm Arthur Smith | title=The British Amphibians & Reptiles | page=258
|passage=We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one
are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an
estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the
surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of ASKS (lizards).}}
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Danish
[lang=da] [[File:Fraxinus-angustifolia.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.15|en ask –
''Fraxinus angustifolia{"content": "''", "type": "DELIM", "wikinode":
"WikiDelimNode"}]]
*** Etymology
From [da], from [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Noun
[en]
1. ash tree ( [Fraxinus] spp.), especially, common ash (tree, [Fraxinus excelsior] )
**** Declension
[en]
*** References
- [R:Den Danske Ordbog]
[da]
** Faroese
*** Alternative forms
- [fo]
*** Etymology
From [fo], from [fo], [gem-pro].
*** Pronunciation
- [fo]
*** Noun
[f]
1. ash tree
2. ash wood
**** Declension
[ask]
[fo]
** Icelandic
*** Noun
[is]
1. [is]
** Northern Kurdish
*** Alternative forms
- [kmr]
*** Etymology
Ultimately derived from [kmr]. Confer [fa].
*** Pronunciation
- [kmr-IPA]
*** Noun
[f]
1. gazelle
2. deer
**** Declension
[f]
*** References
- [ask]
[kmr]
** Norwegian Bokmål
[lang=no]
*** Etymology
From [nb], from [nb].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-m1]
1. European ash ( ash tree ) [Fraxinus excelsior]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
[nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
[lang=nn]
*** Etymology
From [nn], from [nn]. Akin to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [nn]
*** Noun
[nn-noun-m1]
1. European ash ( ash tree ) [Fraxinus excelsior]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
[nn]
** Old Norse
*** Noun
[non]
1. [non]
** Old Saxon
*** Etymology
[osx] From [osx].
*** Pronunciation
- [osx]
*** Noun
[g=m]
1. ash tree
2. spear
**** Declension
[ask]
**** Descendants
- [gml]
- [pdt]
[osx]
** Swedish
[lang=sv]
*** Etymology
From [sv], from [sv], from [sv], ultimately from [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. European ash (tree) [Fraxinus excelsior]
2. a small box (with a loose lid)
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-ar]
**** Derived terms
- [sv]
**** Descendants
- [fi]
**** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]
[sv]