assistant

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪstənt/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

   an assistant surgeon

2. 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, volumes (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

• Bulgarian: спомага́телен (bg) (spomagátelen)
• Catalan: auxiliar (ca)
• Finnish: apu-, vara-, avustava (fi), apulais-
• Georgian: დამხმარე (damxmare)
• German: helfend (de), hilfreich (de)
• Greek: βοηθητικός (el) m (voïthitikós)
• Hungarian: helyettes (hu), segéd (hu)
• Icelandic: aðstoðar- (is)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: asîstan (ku)

• Ladino:

  Roman: ayudador m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: assisterende

• Polish: asystencki (pl)
• Portuguese: assistente (pt)
• Romanian: asistent (ro)
• Russian: вспомога́тельный (ru) (vspomogátelʹnyj)
• Spanish: ayudante (es)
• Swahili: naibu (sw)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} assisterande (sv) (1, 2), ^{(please verify)} stödjande (sv) (2), ^{(please verify)} hjälpande (sv) (2)
• Turkish: asistan (tr)

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

1. (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 […].

2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
3. (British) Sales assistant.
4. 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
• 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)

  Hokkien: 助理 (zh-min-nan) (chō͘-lí), 助手 (chō͘-chhiú)

  Mandarin: 助理 (zh) (zhùlǐ), 助手 (zh) (zhùshǒu)

• 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: βοηθός m (boēthós), ὑπουργός m (hupourgós)

• Hebrew: עוֹזֵר m (ozér)
• Hindi: सहायक (hi) m (sahāyak)
• Hungarian: asszisztens (hu), segéd (hu)
• Icelandic: aðstoðarmaður m
• Ido: helpanto (io), helpero (io)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cúntóir
• Italian: assistente (it) m or f
• Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu)
• Karelian: abuniekka
• Kazakh: көмекші (kömekşı)
• Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (nĕək cumnuəy), ភូឈួយ (km) (phuu chuəy)
• Korean: 조수(助手) (ko) (josu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شاگرد (şagrid)

• Kyrgyz: жардамчы (ky) (jardamcı)
• 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
• 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
• Maori: taituarā, kaiāwhina, uruora, piki
• Middle English: servaunt
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: туслагч (mn) (tuslagč)

• Norman: assistant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: assistent (no) m, medhjelper m

  Nynorsk: assistent m, medhjelpar m

• Persian: دستیار (fa) (dastyâr), آسیستان (fa) (âsistân)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: помо̀ћнӣк m, асѝстент m

  Roman: 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 (yordamčī)
• Tatar: ярдәмче (tt) (yardämçe)
• Thai: ผู้ช่วย (th) (pûu-chûai)
• Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
• Turkmen: kömekçi
• Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja), асисте́нт (uk) m (asystént), асисте́нтка (uk) f (asysténtka)
• Uyghur: ياردەمچى (yardemchi)
• Uzbek: yordamchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: phó thủ, người phụ việc
• Volapük: yufan (vo)

an auxiliary software tool — see wizard

Derived terms

• assistantly
• assistant-manage
• assistant manager
• assistant professor
• assistant referee
• assistantship
• assistant stage manager
• butler's assistant
• education assistant
• lab assistant
• laboratory assistant
• language assistant
• legal assistant
• library assistant
• personal assistant
• personal digital assistant
• physician assistant
• referee assistant
• research assistant
• shop assistant
• teaching assistant
• underassistant
• video assistant referee
• virtual assistant

 

Related terms

• assist
• assistance

Anagrams

• Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/

• Audio

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Participle

assistant

1. present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. assistant

Derived terms

• assistant numérique personnel

Descendants

• → Turkish: asistan

Further reading

• “assistant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

assistant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

Middle French

Verb

assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)

1. present participle of assister
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistans)

1. assistant (person who is present)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. (Jersey) assistant