Meaning of "청하려하다"

Question

I have kind of an awkward situation. I asked my Korean friend to correct my sentence. And she did, but she used a word that I can't understand. I looked it up in Naver, but there is no such word. Could you help me out?

My original sentence was:

금방 잠자더라도 잠 잘 못 할 거예요.

I was corrected:

바로 잠을 청하려해도 잠에 들지 못할거예요.

So I saw this 청하려하다 word. Naver only has the following:

잠을 청하게 하다

And it means "to induce sleep."

Could you tell me the meaning of her original word?

Answer 1

청하다 usually means 'to ask', e.g for a favor.

However, 잠을 청하다, to 'ask for the favour of sleep', has the idiomatic meaning of 'to try to sleep'.

So 바로 잠을 청하려해도 잠에 들지 못할거예요 means 'if I try to sleep right now, I won't be able to fall asleep'.