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Beggar

Definition: Beggar

Beggar

Noun

1. A pauper who lives by begging.

Verb

1. Be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!".

2. Reduce to beggary.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beggar" was first used: 12th century. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Beggar

DomainDefinition

Satire

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Dream Interpretation

To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management, and unless you are economical, you will lose much property. Scandalous reports will prove detrimental to your fame.
To give to a beggar, denotes dissatisfaction with present surroundings.
To dream that you refuse to give to a beggar is altogether bad. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Beggar A beggar may sing before a pickpocket. (In Latin, "Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.") A beggar may sing before a highwayman because he has nothing in his pocket to lose.
Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the de'il. There is no one so proud and arrogant as a beggar who has suddenly grown rich.
"Such is the sad effect of wealth- rank pride-
Mount but a beggar, how the rogue will ride!"
Peter Pindar: Epistle to Lord Lonsdale.
Latin: "Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum."
French: "Il n'est orgueil que de pauvre enrichi."
Italian: "Il vilan nobilitado non connosce il parentado" (A beggar ennobled does not know his own kinsmen).
Spanish: "Quando el villano estáen el mulo, non conoze a dios, ni al mundo" (when a beggar is mounted on a mule, he knows neither gods nor men). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang

Noun. Source: A beggar is someone who is implicitly poor. From the word "beg.". Definition: A poor marijuana user. Context: Used by dealers to describe buyers who are ususally out of money, and are thus forced to purchase small amounts of marijuana. Social Source: Marijuana Dealers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Beggar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A beggar is one who begs, particularly one who gains his living by asking for the charity of others.

See also

Modified from a 1911 encyclopedia The beggar is also a special card in the card game Eat Ch.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Beggar."

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Synonyms: Beggar

Synonyms: mendicant (n), pauperize (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Beggar

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Commonalty

Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon.

Disrepute

Tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel; (punish).

Insolence

Assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation.

Petitioner

Beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter.

Poverty

Poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling; pauvre diable; fakir, schnorrer; homeless person.

Thief

Highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.

Unconformity

Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Wonder

Be wonderful; Adjective: beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Beggar

English words defined with "beggar": Beggared, Beggarhood, Beggaring, beggarly, beggarman, beggarwoman, Beggestere, BezonianCairddisgustingly, distastefullyGaber-lunzieLazarusmean, Mendicity, Mump, MumperPalliard, panhandler, ProgrevoltinglysickeninglytouchWalleteer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "beggar": AntisthenesBEGGAR MAKER, Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, BULL BEGGAR, BULLY BEGGAR, BUNTER, BUSS BEGGARCarmelite, Clapper - dudgeons, CLAPPERDOGEONDOMMERERFakir'Gay GirlHarrington, Havering, Heel, Heels, HennebergIrusJellybyLong-tailedOchiltreePenelophon, Poorer than IrusRAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONESStone Soup, Symbols of SaintsWernerZenelophon. (references)
Etymologies containing "beggar": Walleteer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Beggar

DomainUsage

Screenplays

But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

That could've been you, ya little beggar. (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor; writing credit: George Lucas; Jim Wheat)

A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-servicable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition (King Lear; writing credit: William Shakespeare)

Lyrics

Prince or pauper, beggar man or thing (DANDELION; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Movie/TV Titles

Beggar My Neighbour (1967)

The Dancer and the Beggar (1958)

A Beggar Named Su (1953)

The Beggar Student (1931)

Beggar on Horseback (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Beggar

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Beggar in Jerusalem: A Novel (reference)

  • From Beggar Boy to Prince (reference)

  • The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose (Vintage Contemporaries) (reference)

  • The Beggar Queen (reference)

  • The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain: A Blackie Ryan Storyr (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Beggar

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Photo Album: Beggar

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There stood three beggar lice. Credit: Library of Congress.

A professional beggar. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blind beggar, Morgantown, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beggar. Columbus, Georgia. He worked for many years the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Aliquippa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman and beggar. Credit: Library of Congress.

An Indian beggar - standing in front of iron fence. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Beggar
 

"Gipsy beggar woman" by Lucian Binder
Commentary: "Portrait of a beggar woman taken october 1993 in romania (with nikon 601)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Beggar

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Franklin

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.

Charles Lamb

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Hesiod

Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Beggar

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

The old Beggar looked up at us with hungry eyes

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He smiled habitually as a matter of business, and tried to be polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused a penny

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

At most, by an alms given to a beggar whose blessing he fled from, he might hope wearily to win for himself some measure of actual grace

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

A begging prince what beggar pities not

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The impression was, a King lifting up a lame beggar from the earth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Beggar

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

India

However, his relatives state that Chechi was a beggar native to Beerwah. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Beggar

"Beggar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.78% of the time. "Beggar" is used about 218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.78%18722,491
Noun (proper)7.8%1785,106
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.21%7133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)3.21%7133,076
                    Total100.00%218N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Beggar

Expressions using "beggar": beggar all description beggar description beggar lice beggar on horseback beggar oneself to die a beggar filthy beggar lucky beggar poor beggar sturdy beggar. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "beggar": beggar-king, beggar-lice, beggar-maid, beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbor policy, beggar-my-neighbour, beggar-my-neighbour policy, beggar-thy-neighbor, beggar-ticks, beggar-women.

Ending with "beggar": Couple-beggar, semi-beggar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beggar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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35

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23

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3

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11

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3

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11

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3

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10

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3

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5

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3

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5

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2

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5

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2

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5

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2

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5

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2

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5

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2

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4

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the beggar maid

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beggar poor poverty

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beggar louse

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beggar sea

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Modern Translation: Beggar

Language Translations for "beggar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bedelaar. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

varfëroj (depauperate, impoverish, pauperize), rrënoj (collapse, depredate, destroy, do for, exhaust, ravage, ruin, vandalize, waste), person (body, case, chap, contact, dude, fella, fellow, fish, flesh and blood, guy, hand, individual, party, person, persona, personage, piece, subject), lypës (bum, Cadger, lack-all, mendicant, moocher, mumper, Randy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فقير معدم, ‏فقر (destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, ruin, want), ‏فتي (guy, lad, young man, youthful), ‏متسول (mendicant, panhandler, ragamuffin, sponger), ‏جامع تبرعات, ‏أجل عن, ‏شحاذ (panhandler). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разорявам (bring to ruin, bust, go bust, ravage, ruin, waste), просяк (lazarus, mendicant, panhandler, pauper). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

乞丐 , 叫化子, (beg for alms). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přivést na mizinu, ožebraèit (impoverish, pauperize), žebrák (almsman, mendicant). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tigger. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schooier, bedelaar. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

almozulo, almozpetulo, almozpetanto. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

biddari. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گرفتارفقروفاقه , گدا (Pauper), بیچاره کردن (Bust), بگداءی انداختن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kerjäläinen, avunpyytäjä, almunpyytäjä. (various references)

   

French

  

mendiant (begging), gueux. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

bidler. (various references)

   

German

  

bettler (beggars, lazar, mendicant, panhandler), Kerl (blighter, bloke, chap, character, cove, fellow, guy, operator, twerp, wretch), an den Bettelstab bringen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάνω επαιτεία, ρίχνω στη ζητιανιά, ζητιάνοσ (panhandler), ζητιάνος, επαίτησ (mendicant, mumper, panhandler, prog). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קבצן (mendicant, pauper, sponge, tramp), פושט יד (mendicant), אביון (destitute, miserable, needy, pauper, poor person, wretched). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

koldus (mendicant, mumper, panhandler, pauper). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pengemis (cadger). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mendicante (beggarly, cadge, destitute, indigent, mendicant). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

非人  (outcast), 非人 (outcast), 薦被り (cask wrapped in straw matting), 物貰い (sty), 物乞い (begging), ブ男 (homeless, poodle, pool bar, powder, puma, swimming pool, ugly man), レーニン主義 (homeless, label, labor union, lane, layer, layered cut, layered look, layman, layoff, layout, layout-system, lecture, leg guards, leggings, Leghorn, lei, Leninism, leopon, leotard, lexicon, philosophy of life, racialism, racism, rail, rain, rainbow fish, raincoat, rainy, raise, range, ranger, rape, rapier, rare, rare metal, ray, Ray-Ban, rayonne, ray-tracing, record, recorder, recording, recreation, regatta, reggae, regular, regular chain store, regular member, regulation, Regulus, requiem), 乞食 (begging), 乞丐 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

プータロー (homeless), レゲエおじさん (homeless), ひにん (contraception, denial, disapproval, negation, outcast, repudiation), こつがい, こつじき (begging), こもかぶり (cask wrapped in straw matting), こじき (begging, Japan's Ancient Chronicle), ものごい (begging), ものもらい (sty). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

거지. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jeirkagh (almsman, benefit, benefit as match, benevolent, cadger, impecunious, pauper), jannoo boght (impoverish, impoverishing, pauperize), fer ny dhieyn, femagh (needy person), caayneyder (chanter, whiner). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

tigger. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

pober (miserable, poor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eggarbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pedinte (cadger, lazarus, mendicant, mumper, panhandler, pauper, peddlar, tramp), mendigo (cadger, mumper, panhandler, peddlar, tramp, vagrant). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

bãiat (boy, caddie, chap, child, fellow, guy, Jack, lad, scout, son, youngster, youth), sãrãci (come down in the world, depauperate, impoverish, ruin), pauperiza (impoverish, pauperize), milog (cadger, mendicant), cerşetor (almsman, cadger, Lazar, mendicant, pauper, tramp), calic (cadger, cripple, glutton, greedy, pauper, ragamuffin, ragged, skinflint, tatterdemalion). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нищий (almsman, dog poor, lazarus, mendicant, mumper, panhandler, pauper). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

baigeir (a beggar), fòidheach (a beggar). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prosjak (mendicant, mumper, panhandler), iscrpsti (exhaust, run down, sap, scoop dry), dovesti do prsjačkog štapa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mendigo (almsman, mendicant, panhandler). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tiggare (begger, cadger, moocher, panhandler, scrounger). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

pulúbi. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้ยากจนลง, คนขอทาน (mendicant), คนจน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kerata (bootjack, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallawag, shoehorn, sweep), köftehor (gay dog, rogue), gerektirmek (call for, entail, exact, imply, indicate, involve, necessitate, require, suppose, take, want), fakirleştirmek (emasculate, impoverish, make poor, pauperize, reduce to beggary), dilenciye çevirmek, dilenci (bum, cadger, mendicant, panhandler), dílencí. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gedaя (poor, poor person), aюaky (low-life). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

старець (abraham-man, cadger, elder, mumper, panhandler), розоряти (break, devastate, flatten out, impoverish, overwhelm), незаможний (have not, poor), жебрак (abraham-man, cadger, canter, eleemosynary, lazarus, mendicant, needy, panhandler, scrounger), перевершувати (bang, better, go beyond, outbalance, outgo, outray, outreach, out-top, overpass, overpeer, overshoot, overtop, surpass, transcend), доводити до злиднів (depauperate, distress, pauperize). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thằng (blade), người ăn mày (lazar, lazarus, mumper). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tlodi (impoverish, poverty), llymhau (impoverish, make bare, sharpen), cardotyn, achenog. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Beggar

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Bidens cernua L., Bidens frondosa L., Bidens melanocarpa Wieg., pauper, Ranunculus arvensis. (various references)

Persian800-Modern

darvesh, darvish. (various references)

Old French900-1400

truant. (various references)

Middle Dutch1100-1500

beggaert. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Beggar

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 16, Verse 20
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintPtwcoV de tiV hn onomati lazaroV oV ebeblhto proV ton pulwna autou hlkwmenoV
Latin405VulgateEt erat quidam mendicus nomine Lazarus qui iacebat ad ianuam eius ulceribus plenus
Old English990West SaxonAnd sum wædla wæs on naman lazarus. se læg on his dura swyðe forwundon.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd there was a begger, Lazarus bi name, that lai at his yate ful of bilis,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd ther was a certayne begger named Lazarus whiche laye at his gate full of soores
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Basic English1964OgdenAnd a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Beggar

LanguageLuke Chapter 16, Verse 20
CebuanoUg sa gowa sa iyang pultahan gipalubog ang usa ka tawong kabus nga ginganlan si Lazaro, nga nalukop sa kabahong.
CroatianA neki siromah, imenom Lazar, ležao je sav u èirevima pred njegovim vratima
DanishMen en fattig ved Navn Lazarus var lagt ved hans Port, fuld af Sår.
DutchEn er was een zeker bedelaar, met name Lazarus, welke lag voor zijn poort vol zweren;
FinnishMutta eräs köyhä, nimeltä Lasarus, makasi hänen ovensa edessä täynnä paiseita
FrenchUn pauvre, nommé Lazare, était couché à sa porte, couvert d`ulcères,
GermanEs war aber ein armer Mann mit Namen Lazarus, der lag vor seiner Tür voller Schwären
HungarianÉs vala egy Lázár nevû koldus, ki az õ kapuja elé volt vetve, fekélyekkel tele.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariDi depan pintu rumahnya diletakkan seorang miskin bernama Lazarus. Badannya penuh dengan borok.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTetapi ada pula seorang peminta sedekah, bernama Lazarus, terbaring di muka pintu orang kaya itu katup dengan pekung;
ItalianUn mendicante, di nome Lazzaro, giaceva alla sua porta, coperto di piaghe,
Korean나 사 로 라 이 름 한 한 거 지 가 헌 데 를 앓 으 며 그 부 자 의 대 문 에 누 워
MaoriNa ka whakatakotoria ki tona kuwaha tetahi tangata rawakore, ko Raharuhi te ingoa, he tuwhenua,
NorwegianMen der var en fattig mann ved navn Lasarus, som var kastet for hans port, full av sår,
PortugueseAo seu portão fora deitado um mendigo, chamado Lázaro, todo coberto de úlceras;   
RumanianLa uwa lui, zqcea un sqrac, numit Lazqr, plin de bube.
ShuarTura Kuítrincha ámai ni naari Rásaru. Niisha kuchapruku tunamaruyi. Tuke tsawant Kuítrinniu Wáitiriin pujuyi.
SpanishY cierto pobre, llamado Lázaro, estaba echado a su puerta, lleno de llagas,
SwahiliKulikuwa pia na maskini mmoja jina lake Lazaro, aliyekuwa amejaa vidonda na alikuwa analazwa mlangoni pa nyumba ya huyo tajiri.
SwedishMen en fattig man, vid namn Lasarus, låg vid hans port, full av sår,
UmaHi wobo' -na ratu'u hadua tauna to kabu, hanga' -na Lazarus. Woto-na hobo' paka' waka'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Beggar

Derivations

Words beginning with "beggar": beggared, beggaries, beggaring, beggarliness, beggarlinesses, beggarly, beggars, beggarweed, beggarweeds, beggary. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Beggar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baglar, Bagnar, Bagnara, begad, begal, Begara, beger, beggard, begger, begir, Begor, Begram, Bigard, bigga, Blegvad, bogar, bogger, Bredgar, Bugar, buggar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Beggar"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "beggar" (pronounced be"ger)
3-e" g erEgger, Jaeger.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Beggar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bagger.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r"

-1 letter: agger, barge, eggar, gager.

-2 letters: ager, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, gage, garb, gear, grab, rage.

-3 letters: age, arb, are, bag, bar, beg, bra, ear, egg, era, erg, gab, gae, gag, gar, rag, reb, reg.

-4 letters: ab, ae, ag, ar, ba, be, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r"
 

+1 letter: baggers, baggier, beggars, beggary, bragged, bragger, burgage, garbage.

 

+2 letters: beggared, beggarly, braggers, braggest, braggier, burgages, garbages.

 

+3 letters: badgering, bedraggle, beggaries, beggaring, braggiest, eggbeater.

 

+4 letters: absterging, bedraggled, bedraggles, beggarweed, begroaning, brigandage, budgerigar, eggbeaters, embargoing, gangbanger, gangbuster, garbageman, garbagemen, outbragged, sandbagger, tobogganer.

 

+5 letters: ballyragged, bedraggling, beggarweeds, beglamoring, brigandages, budgerigars, bullyragged, embrangling, gangbangers, gangbusters, gingerbread, sandbaggers, staggerbush, tobogganers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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