assistant
English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd English assistant From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsɪstənt/[1]
- Hyphenation: as‧sis‧tant
Adjective
assistant (not comparable) (attributive)
- Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
an assistant surgeon
- Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science:Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]
Translations
having a subordinate or auxiliary position Noun
assistant (plural assistants)
- (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable […].
- A person who assists or helps someone else.
- (British) Sales assistant.
- A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
- Synonym: wizard
Translations
person who assists
- Albanian: asistent (sq) m, asistente (sq) f, ndihmës (sq) m, ndihmëtar (sq) m
- Amharic: ረዳት (rädat)
- Arabic: مُسَاعِد (ar) m (musāʕid), مُسَاعِدَة f (musāʕida), مُعَاوِن (ar) m (muʕāwin), مُعَاوِنَة f (muʕāwina)
- Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
- Asturian: asistente m or f
- Azerbaijani: köməkçi (az), yardımçı
- Bashkir: ярҙамсы (yarźamsı)
- Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), асістэ́нт m (asistént), асістэ́нтка f (asisténtka)
- Bengali: সহায়ক (bn) (śohaẏok)
- Bulgarian: помо́щник (bg) m (pomóštnik), помо́щничка f (pomóštnička), помо́щница f (pomóštnica), асисте́нт (bg) m (asistént), асисте́нтка f (asisténtka)
- Burmese: အကူ (my) (a.ku)
- Catalan: assistent (ca) m, assistenta (ca) f
- Cebuano: kabulig
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 助理 (zo6 lei5), 助手 (yue) (zo6 sau2), 副手 (fu3 sau2)
- Hokkien: 助理 (zh-min-nan) (chō͘-lí), 助手 (chō͘-chhiú)
- Mandarin: 助理 (zh) (zhùlǐ), 助手 (zh) (zhùshǒu), 副手 (zh) (fùshǒu)
- Czech: asistent (cs) m, asistentka (cs) f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
- Danish: assistent, hjælper (da), medhjælper
- Dutch: assistent (nl) m, assistente (nl) f
- Egyptian: (ẖrj-ꜥ)
- Esperanto: asistanto
- Estonian: abiline (et), asetäitja, assistent
- Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi)
- French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f, auxiliaire (fr) m or f
- Middle French: assistant m
- Galician: asistente m
- Georgian: ასისტენტი (asisṭenṭi)
- German: Assistent (de) m, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Helfer (de) m, Gehilfe (de) m
- Greek: βοηθός (el) m or f (voïthós)
- Ancient Greek: βοηθός m (boēthós), ὑπουργός m (hupourgós)
- Hebrew: עוֹזֵר m (ozér)
- Hindi: सहायक (hi) m (sahāyak), मददगार (hi) m (madadgār)
- Hungarian: asszisztens (hu), segéd (hu)
- Icelandic: aðstoðarmaður m
- Ido: helpanto (io), helpero (io)
- Indonesian: pembantu (id)
- Irish: cúntóir
- Italian: assistente (it) m or f
- Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu), 手伝い (ja) (てつだい. tetsudai), アシスタント (ja) (ashisutanto)
- Karelian: abuniekka
- Kazakh: көмекші (kömekşı), ассистент (assistent)
- Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (nĕək cumnuəy), ភូឈួយ (km) (phuu chuəy)
- Korean: 조수(助手) (ko) (josu), 도우미 (doumi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شاگرد (şagrid)
- Northern Kurdish: arîkar (ku), alîkar (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жардамчы (ky) (jardamcı), ассистент (ky) (assistent)
- Lao: ຜູ້ຊ່ວຍ (phū suāi), ຜູ້ຮອງ (phū hǭng)
- Latin: adiūtor (la) m, adiūtrix f; optiō m, administer m
- Latvian: asistents m, asistente f, palīgs m, palīdze f
- Lithuanian: asistentas m, asistentė f, padėjėjas m, padėjėja f
- Livvi: abuniekku
- Macedonian: помагач m (pomagač), помагачка f (pomagačka), помошник m (pomošnik), помошничка f (pomošnička), асистент m (asistent), асистентка f (asistentka)
- Malay: pembantu (ms)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Māori: taituarā, kaiāwhina, uruora, piki
- Marathi: सहाय्यक m (sahāyyak)
- Middle English: servaunt
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: туслагч (mn) (tuslagč)
- Norman: assistant m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: assistent (no) m, medhjelper m
- Nynorsk: assistent m, medhjelpar m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: دَسْتْیار (dastyâr), آسیسْتان (âsistân), یاوَر (yâvar)
- Polish: asystent (pl) m or f, asystentka (pl) f, pomocnik (pl) m, pomocnica (pl) f
- Portuguese: assistente (pt) m or f, ajudante (pt) m or f
- Romanian: asistent (ro) m, asistentă (ro) f, ajutor (ro) m, ajutoare (ro) f
- Russian: ассисте́нт (ru) m (assistént), ассисте́нтка (ru) f (assisténtka), помо́щник (ru) m (pomóščnik), помо́щница (ru) f (pomóščnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuidiche
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: помо̀ћнӣк m, асѝстент m
- Latin: pomòćnīk m, asìstent (sh) m
- Slovak: pomocník m, pomocníca f, asistent m, asistentka f
- Slovene: pomočnik m, pomočnica f
- Spanish: ayudante (es) m, asistente (es) m or f
- Swahili: msaidizi (sw)
- Swedish: assistent (sv), medhjälpare (sv) c
- Tajik: ёрдамчӣ (yordamči), дастёр (dastyor), ёвар (yovar), ассистент (assistent)
- Tatar: ярдәмче (tt) (yärdämçe)
- Thai: ผู้ช่วย (th) (pûu-chûai)
- Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: یاردمجی (yardımcı), امدادجی (imdâdcı), ناصر (nâsır)
- Turkmen: kömekçi
- Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja), асисте́нт (uk) m (asystént), асисте́нтка (uk) f (asysténtka)
- Urdu: مَدَدْگار m (madadgār), سَہایَک m (sahāyak), یاوَر (ur) m (yāvar)
- Uyghur: ياردەمچى (yardemchi)
- Uzbek: yordamchi (uz), assistent (uz)
- Vietnamese: phó thủ, người phụ việc
- Volapük: yufan (vo)
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Derived terms
References
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Participle
assistant
- present participle of assister
Noun
assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)
- assistant
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Latin
Verb
assistant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō
Middle French
Verb
assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)
- present participle of assister
- (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of assister
Noun
assistant m (plural assistans)
- assistant (person who is present)
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English assistant.
Noun
assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)
- (Jersey) assistant
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