# request
## English
### Alternative forms

* requeste (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹɪˈkwɛst/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛst
* Hyphenation: re‧quest

### Verb

request (third-person singular simple present requests, present participle requesting, simple past and past participle requested)
* (transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
    The corporal requested reinforcements.
    I have requested that the furniture be moved back to its original position.
** 1979 December 29, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder & Related Matters”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 6:Copies of records of Spear's long-distance telephone calls (which had been requested by Norfolk County police from the telephone company)
* (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.
    Synonyms: ask, bespeak, call for
    She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.

#### Translations

Arabic: طَلَبَ (ar) (ṭalaba)
Egyptian Arabic: طلب (ṭalab)
Armenian: խնդրել (hy) (xndrel), հայցել (hy) (haycʻel)
Belarusian: запы́тваць impf (zapýtvacʹ), запыта́ць pf (zapytácʹ)
Bikol Central: hagad (bcl)
Catalan: demanar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏲᎯᎭ (atayohiha)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 請求 / 请求 (zh) (qǐngqiú), 拜托 (zh) (bàituō), 要求 (zh) (yāoqiú)
Czech: žádat (cs), požádat (cs)
Dalmatian: precur
Danish: anmode, forespørge, indkalde (da), tilkalde (da)
Dutch: verzoeken (nl)
Egyptian: (dbḥ)
Esperanto: peti (eo)
Estonian: paluma, soovima
Finnish: pyytää (fi), anoa (fi)
French: demander (fr)
Galician: requirir
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: anfordern (de), erwünschen (de), verlangen nach, begehren (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽 (aihtrōn)
Greek: ζητώ (el) (zitó)
Ancient: αἰτέω (aitéō)
Hebrew: בִּקֵּשׁ (he) (biqésh)
Hindi: निवेदन करना (nivedan karnā)
Hungarian: kér (hu), igényel (hu), kíván (hu)
Icelandic: biðja (is)
Ingrian: kyssyä, ampua
Irish: iarr
Japanese: 要望する (ja) (ようぼうする, yōbō suru), 要請する (ようせいする, yōsei suru), 求める (ja) (もとめる, motomeru), 頼む (ja) (たのむ, tanomu)
Kazakh: сұрау салу (sūrau salu)
Khmer: សុំ (km) (som), សូម (km) (soom)
Korean: 부탁하다 (ko) (butakhada), 요망하다 (yomanghada), 요청하다 (ko) (yocheonghada), 요구하다 (ko) (yoguhada)
Latin: petō (la), requīrō (la), poscō
Latvian: prasīt, lūgt (lv)
Lithuanian: prašyti (lt)
Macedonian: барање (mk) (baranje)
Malayalam: അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കുക (ml) (abhyaṟtthikkuka)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anmode (no)
Occitan: demandar (oc)
Persian: درخواست کردن (fa) (darxâst kardan), طلب کردن (talab kardan), درخواستن (darxâstan)
Polish: prosić (pl)
Portuguese: requerer (pt)
Quechua: mañay
Romanian: cere (ro), ruga (ro)
Russian: запра́шивать (ru) impf (zaprášivatʹ), запроси́ть (ru) pf (zaprosítʹ), тре́бовать (ru) impf (trébovatʹ), проси́ть (ru) impf (prosítʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: iarr
Spanish: pedir (es), solicitar (es), instar (es)
Swedish: anhålla om, be (sv), bedja (sv), utbe sig, utbedja sig
Tagalog: makiusap
Thai: ขอ (th) (kɔ̌ɔ), ขอให้ (kɔ̌ɔ-hâi)
Tibetan: བསྐུལ་བ (bskul ba)
Ukrainian: проси́ти impf (prosýty), попроси́ти pf (poprosýty)
Vietnamese: thỉnh cầu (vi) (請求), yêu cầu (vi) (要求)
Zazaki: wazen, taleb kerden, waşten :
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### Noun

request (plural requests)
* Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
    Synonyms: asking, beseech, prayer, wish
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:I will marry her, sir, at your request.
** 1839, The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports:The promise that arises upon an account stated, is to pay on request.
* A formal message requesting something.
    Synonyms: petition, postulation
* Condition of being sought after.
    Synonym: demand
** 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 49:I do not doubt, but many Great and more Noble Uſes would have been made of ſuch Conqueſts or Diſcoveries, if they had fallen to the ſhare of the Greeks and Romans in thoſe Ages, when Knowledge and Fame were in as great Requeſt, as endleſs Gains and Wealth are among us now; [...]
* (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
    The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.
* (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 106:15:He gave them their request.

#### Derived terms

* discovery request
* merge request
* pull request
* request for admission
* request for comments
* request for production
* request for quotation

#### Related terms

* require
* requirement
* requisite

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: リクエスト (rikuesuto)

#### Translations
### See also

* Wiktionary:Requested entries:English

### Further reading

* request on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “request”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “request”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “request”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* quester

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* requeste, reqweste, rekeyste

### Etymology

From Old French requeste, from Vulgar Latin *requaesita; equivalent to re- +‎ quest.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛˈkwɛst(ə)/

### Noun

request (plural requestes)
* A request or petition; a pleading or asking.
* (Late Middle English) What is requested or petitioned for; something that is sought-after.
* (Late Middle English) An adventure or heroic journey.

#### Descendants

* English: request
* Scots: request

#### References

* “request(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.