assistant

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈsɪstənt/

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Adjective

assistant (not comparable)

1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

Translations

having a subordinate or auxiliary position

• Bulgarian: спомагателен (bg) (spomagatelen)
• Finnish: apu-, vara-, avustava, apulais-
• German: helfend (de), hilfreich (de)
• Hungarian: helyettes (hu), segéd (hu)
• Kurdish: asîstan (ku)
• Ladino:

  Latin: ayudador m

• Russian: вспомогательный (ru) (vspomogátel'nyj)
• Spanish: ayudante (es)
• Swahili: naibu (sw)
• Swedish: assisterande (1,2), stödjande (2), hjälpande (2)
• Turkish: asistan (tr)

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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. (UK) Sales assistant.
4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

Translations

person who assists

• Albanian: asistent (sq) m, asistente (sq) f
• Arabic: مساعد (ar) (musā`id) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: asistente (ast) m and f
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: помощник (bg) (pomoštnik), асистент (bg) (asistent)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: assistente (ca) m and f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: asistent (cs) m, asistentka (cs) f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
• Dutch: assistent (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi), aputyöntekijä (fi)
• French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f
• Galician: asistente (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Assistent (de) m, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Helfer (de) m
• Greek: βοηθός (el) (voithós) m and f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: asszisztens (hu), segéd (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: helpanto (io), helpero (io)

• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: assistente (it) m and f
• Japanese: 助手 (ja) (joshu)
• Jèrriais: assistant m
• Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (km) (neak cumnuəy)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شاگرد (ku)

• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pembantu (ms)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: taituarā (mi)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: دستیار (fa) (dastyâr)
• Polish: asystent (pl) m
• Portuguese: assistente (pt) m and f, ajudante (pt) m and f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ассистент (ru) (assistént) m, ассистентка (ru) (assisténtka) f, помощник (ru) (pomóščnik) m, помощница (ru) (pomóščnica) f
• Spanish: ayudante (es) m, asistente (es) m and f
• Swahili: naibu (sw)
• Swedish: assistent (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: yufan (vo)

software

• Dutch: assistent (nl) m

• German: Assistent (de) m

Related terms

• assist
• assistance

Anagrams

• Satanists

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /a.sis.tɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /a.sis.tA~/

Verb form

assistant

1. present participle of assister

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Jèrriais

Etymology

Borrowing from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants; feminine assistante, plural assistantes)

1. assistant

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Latin

Verb

assistant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō