assistant

English

Alternative forms

assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti

Proto-Italic *sistō

Latin sistō

Latin assistōbor.

Middle French assister

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old French -ant

Middle French -ant

Middle French assistantbor.

Middle English assistent

English assistant

From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈsɪstənt/^[1]
Audio (US): (file)
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

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)
Ancient Greek: συνεργός m (sunergós)
Hungarian: helyettes (hu), segéd (hu)
Icelandic: aðstoðar- (is)
Korean: 보조 (ko) (bojo), 시다 (ko) (sida)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: asîstan (ku)
Ladino:
Latin: ayudador m
Marathi: सहाय्यक (sahāyyak)
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)

(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
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:

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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)

an auxiliary software tool — see wizard

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References

^ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant

Anagrams

Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/
Audio: (file)
Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)

Participle

assistant

present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

assistant

Derived terms

assistant numérique personnel

Descendants

→ Turkish: asistan

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

[1] ttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant

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