pray

动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 prā

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
    — Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.
  2. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
  3. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. obsolete
    — I know not how to pray your patience.
  4. To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
    — She is praying that the Red Sox will win tonight.
  5. To implore, to entreat, to request. obsolete
    — They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed Such homely what as serves the simple clowne, That doth despise the dainties of the towne[…]
副词 adv.
  1. Please; used to make a polite request archaic,formal,not-comparable
    — pray silence for…
  2. Alternative form of pray tell (“I ask you”). alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — Shall I be moved to love you, pray, / By hints that I must soon decay? / No woman's won by being told / How quickly she is growing old[...]

词形变化

prays present,singular,third-person praying participle,present prayed participle,past prayed past

词汇关系

衍生词
nonpraying outpray plug and pray prayable prayee prayer prayful pray in aid praying Indian prayingly praying machine praying mantid praying mantis praying shawl pray tell pray the gay away pray to the porcelain god pray to the porcelain goddess prithee spray and pray unpray unprayed unpraying
相关词
precarious

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *preḱ-
Proto-Italic *preks
Latin prex
Latin precārī
Late Latin precāre
Old French proiier
Anglo-Norman preierbor.
Middle English preien
English pray
Inherited from Middle English preien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman preier, from Old French proiier, from Late Latin precāre, from Latin precārī, from prex (“request, petition, prayer”), from Proto-Italic *preks, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”). Displaced native Old English gebiddan.
Cognate via Indo-European of Old English frignan, fricgan, German fragen, Dutch vragen. Compare deprecate, imprecate, precarious.
词源 2
Ellipsis of I pray you, I pray thee, whence also prithee.
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