ask for

English

ask for (third-person singular simple presentasks for,present participleasking for,simple past and past participleasked for)

Torequest.
Iasked for a glass of water.
Toincrease thelikelihood of something bypersisting in someaction; toinvite.
If you keep on speeding, you areasking for trouble.

request

Arabic:سَأَلَ (ar)(saʔala),طَلَبَ (ar)(ṭalaba)
Egyptian Arabic:طلب(ṭalab)
South Levantine Arabic:طلب(ṭálab)
Azerbaijani:istəmək (az),xahiş etmək
Basque:eskatu
Catalan:demanar (ca)
Czech:požádat (cs) o(accusative)
Egyptian:

(dbḥ)
Esperanto:peti (eo)
Estonian:paluma
Finnish:pyytää (fi)
French:demander (fr)
Greek:ζητώ (el)(zitó)
Ancient:αἰτέω(aitéō)
Hebrew:ביקש(bikésh)
Hungarian:kér (hu)
Italian:chiedere (it)
Lao:ຂໍ (lo)(khǭ)
Latin:petō (la),poscō,requīrō (la)
Latvian:lūgt (lv),prasīt
Old Saxon:ābiddian
Persian:درخواست کردن (fa)
Portuguese:pedir (pt)
Quechua:mañay
Russian:проси́ть (ru)(prosítʹ)
Spanish:pedir (es)
Swedish:fråga efter
Turkish:istemek (tr)

to invite upon oneself