assistant

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

• , IPA^(key): /əˈsɪstənt/
• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪstɛnt/

• 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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Beattie and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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: 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:
• Ladino:

  Roman: ayudador m

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• 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)

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
   • Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
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)
• Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
• Asturian: asistente m or f
• Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), асістэ́нт m (asistént), асістэ́нтка f (asisténtka)
• 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 or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 助理 (zo⁶ lei⁵), 助手 (yue) (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 (cs) f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
• Danish: assistent, hjælper (da), medhjælper
• Dutch: assistent (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ẖrj-ꜥ)
• Esperanto: asistanto
• Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi)
• French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f, auxiliaire (fr) m or f
• 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: 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
• Interlingue:
• Irish: cúntóir
• Italian: assistente (it) m or f
• Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu)
• Karelian: abuniekka
• Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (neak cumnuəy)
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• Korean: 조수 (ko) (josu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: adiūtor (la) m, optiō 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
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: taituarā, kaiāwhina, uruora
• 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, 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: помоћник m, асистент m

  Roman: pomoćnik (sh) m, asistent (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
• Thai: ผู้ช่วย (pûu chûay)
• Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
• Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja), асисте́нт (uk) m (asystént), асисте́нтка (uk) f (asysténtka)
• Volapük: yufan (vo)

an auxiliary software tool — see wizard

Related terms

• assist
• assistance

Anagrams

• Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Verb

assistant

1. present participle of assister

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) assistant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

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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)

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. (Jersey) assistant