assistant

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• assistaunt (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɪstənt/

• Audio (US)

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AdjectiveEdit

assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

   an assistant surgeon

2. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
   • Beattie

     Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292:

     The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]

TranslationsEdit

having a subordinate or auxiliary position

• Bulgarian: спомагателен (bg) (spomagatelen)
• 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: asîstan (ku)
• Ladino:

  Roman: ayudador m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: assisterende

• Portuguese: assistente (pt)
• Romanian: asistent (ro)
• Russian: вспомога́тельный (ru) (vspomogátelʹnyj)
• Spanish: ayudante (es)
• Swahili: naibu (sw)
• Swedish: assisterande (1,2), stödjande (2), hjälpande (2)
• Turkish: asistan (tr)

NounEdit

assistant (plural assistants)

1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , II.3:

     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. (Britain) Sales assistant.
4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

   Synonyms: wizard

TranslationsEdit

person who assists

• Albanian: asistent (sq) m, asistente (sq) f
• Arabic: مُسَاعِد‎‎ (ar) m (musāʿid)
• Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
• Asturian: asistente m, f
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: помо́щник (bg) m (pomóštnik), асисте́нт (bg) m (asistént)
• Burmese: အကူ (my) (a.ku)
• Catalan: assistente m, f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 助理 (zo⁶ lei⁵), 助手 (zo⁶ sau²)

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

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

• Czech: asistent m, asistentka f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
• Dutch: assistent (nl) m
• Esperanto: asistanto
• Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi)
• French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f, auxiliaire (fr) m, f
• Galician: asistente m
• Georgian: ასისტენტი (asisṭenṭi)
• German: Assistent (de) m, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Helfer (de) m
• Greek: βοηθός (el) m, f (voïthós)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• 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, f
• Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu)
• Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (neak cumnuəy)
• Korean: 조수 (ko) (josu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شاگرد‎‎ (ku)

• Latin: optiō m
• Latvian: asistents m, asistente f, palīgs m, palīdze f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pembantu
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: taituarā, kaiāwhina
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Portuguese: assistente (pt) m, f, ajudante (pt) m, 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)
• Spanish: ayudante (es) m, asistente (es) m, f
• Swahili: msaidizi (sw)
• Swedish: assistent (sv)
• Thai: ผู้ช่วย (pûu chûay)
• Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
• Volapük: yufan (vo)

wizard — see wizard

Related termsEdit

• assist
• assistance

AnagramsEdit

• Satanists, satanists

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/

VerbEdit

assistant

1. present participle of assister

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LatinEdit

VerbEdit

assistant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

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Middle FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

assistant (plural assistans)

1. present participle of assister

NounEdit

assistant m (plural assistans)

1. assistant (person who is present)

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English assistant.

NounEdit

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. (Jersey) assistant