assistance

assistance

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunce

Etymology

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assistō (“I stand at”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɪs.təns/

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Noun

assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)

1. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

Derived terms

• anchimeric assistance
• assistance animal
• assistance dog
• public assistance
• writ of assistance

 

Translations

aid; help; the act or result of assisting

Afrikaans: hulp (af) Albanian: ndihmë (sq) f Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة‎ f (musāʿada), إِمْدَاد‎ m (ʾimdād) Armenian: աջակցություն (hy) (aǰakcʿutʿyun), օգնություն (hy) (ōgnutʿyun) Azerbaijani: yardım (az), kömək (az) Bashkir: ярҙам (yarðam) Belarusian: дапамо́га f (dapamóha) Bengali: সাহায্য (bn) (sahaĵẏ) Bulgarian: по́мощ (bg) f (pómošt), съде́йствие (bg) n (sǎdéjstvie) Catalan: assistència (ca) f Chinese: Dungan: бонцу (boncu), бон (bon) Mandarin: 援助 (zh) (yuánzhù), 幫助／帮助 (zh) (bāngzhù) Crimean Tatar: yardım Czech: asistence f, pomoc (cs) f Danish: hjælp (da) c Dutch: hulp (nl) f, assistentie (nl) f Estonian: abi (et) Finnish: apu (fi), avustaminen (fi) French: assistance (fr) f Galician: asistencia f Georgian: დახმარება (daxmareba) German: Hilfe (de) f Greek: βοήθεια (el) f (voḯtheia) Haitian Creole: asistans Hebrew: עֶזְרָה‎ (he) f (ʿezrá) Hindi: मदद (hi) f (madad), सहायता (hi) f (sahāytā), इमदाद (hi) f (imdād) Hungarian: segítség (hu) Icelandic: aðstoð (is) f, hjálp (is) f Ido: helpo (io), sokurso (io) Irish: cabhair f, cuidiú m, cúnamh m Italian: assistenza (it) f Japanese: 援助 (ja) (enjo), 助け (ja) (たすけ, tasuke), 手助け (てだすけ, tedasuke), 手伝い (ja) (てつだい, tetsudai) Kazakh: асар (asar), бөксер (bökser), жәрдем (järdem) Khmer: ជំនួយ (km) (cumnuəy), កិច្ចសង្គ្រោះ (kəc sɑŋkrʊəh) Komi-Permyak: отсӧт (otsöt) Korean: 도움 (ko) (doum), 원조 (ko) (wonjo), 지원 (ko) (jiwon) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: یارمەتی‎ (ku) (yarmetî) Kyrgyz: жардам (ky) (jardam) Latin: adiumentum m Latvian: palīdzlība f Lithuanian: pagalba (lt) f Macedonian: помош (mk) f (pomoš) Mongolian: тусламж (mn) (tuslamž) Norwegian: Bokmål: hjelp (no) m or f Nynorsk: hjelp f Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: помощь f (pomoštĭ) Persian: یاری‎ (fa) (yâri), کمک‎ (fa) (komak), دستیاری‎ (fa) (dastyâri), معاضدت‎ (fa) (mo'âzadat), امداد‎ (fa) (emdâd), مساعدت‎ (fa) (mosâ'edat) Plautdietsch: Help f Polish: pomoc (pl) f Portuguese: assistência (pt) f Romanian: asistență (ro) f, ajutor (ro) n Russian: по́мощь (ru) f (pómoščʹ), соде́йствие (ru) n (sodéjstvije), подде́ржка (ru) f (poddéržka) Sanskrit: उपकार (sa) m (upakāra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏мо̄ћ f Roman: pȍmōć f Slovak: pomoc f Slovene: pomọ̑č (sl) f Spanish: asistencia (es) f Swahili: usaidizi (sw) Swedish: hjälp (sv) c Tajik: ёрӣ (yorī), ёрмандӣ (yormandī), мадад (madad), кӯмак (tg) (kümak), имдод (imdod) Tatar: ярдәм (tt) (yardäm) Telugu: సహాయము (te) (sahāyamu) Thai: ความช่วยเหลือ (th) (kwaam-chûai-lʉ̌ʉa) Tocharian B: ekito Turkish: yardım (tr) Turkmen: ýardam, kömek Ukrainian: допомо́га f (dopomóha), по́міч f (pómič) Urdu: مدد‎ f (madad), امداد‎ f (imdād) Uzbek: еrdam, koʻmak (uz), yordam (uz), bermoq (uz) Vietnamese: sự giúp đỡ (vi)

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French

Etymology

From Late Latin assistentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃s/

Noun

assistance f (plural assistances)

1. assistance
2. audience

Derived terms

• assistance publique
• porter assistance

Related terms

• assistant

Further reading

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