What is the meaning of Pray?

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.

To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

To implore, to entreat, to request.

Please; used to make a polite request

Alternative form of pray tell (I ask you (insincerely))

Alternative form of preie

Source: wiktionary.org