assistant definition

English assistant definition

Alternative forms

assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

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

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 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 […]

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)
Hungarian: helyettes (hu), segéd (hu)
Icelandic: aðstoðar- (is)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: asîstan (ku)
Ladino:
Roman: ayudador m

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 946730821:
  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.
(Britain) 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
Arabic: مُسَاعِد‎ (ar) m (musāʿid), مُسَاعِدَة‎ f (musāʿida), مُعَاوِن‎ (ar) m (muʿāwin), مُعَاوِنَة‎ f (muʿāwina)
Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
Asturian: asistente m or f
Azerbaijani: köməkçi (az), yardımçı
Bashkir: ярҙамсы (yarðamsı)
Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), асістэ́нт m (asistént), асістэ́нтка f (asisténtka)
Bengali: সহায়ক (śôhaẏôk)
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)

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

Min Nan: 助理 (zh-min-nan) (chō͘-lí), 助手 (chō͘-chhiú)
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: βοηθός m (boēthós), ὑπουργός m (hupourgós)
Hebrew: עוֹזֵר‎ m (ozér)
Hindi: सहायक (hi) m (sahāyak)
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 or f
Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu)
Karelian: abuniekka
Kazakh: көмекші (kömekşı)
Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (nĕək cumnuəy), ភូឈួយ (km) (phuu chuəy)

Korean: 조수(助手) (ko) (josu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شاگرد‎ (ku) (şagrid)
Kyrgyz: жардамчы (ky) (jardamçı)
Lao: ຜູ້ຊ່ວຍ (phū suāi), ຜູ້ຮອງ (phū hǭng)
Latin: adiū tor (la) m, adiūtrix f; optiō m, administer 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 (ms)
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Maori: taituarā, kaiāwhina, uruora, piki
Middle English: servaunt
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: туслагч (mn) (tuslagch)
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 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)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: помо̀ћнӣк m, асѝстент m

Roman: pomòćnīk (sh) 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 (yordamčī)
Tatar: ярдәмче (tt) (yardämçe)
Thai: ผู้ช่วย (th) (pûu-chûai)
Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
Turkmen: kömekçi
Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja), асисте́нт (uk) m (asystént), асисте́нтка (uk) f (asysténtka)
Uyghur: ياردەمچى‎ (yardemchi)
Uzbek: yordamchi (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 assistant definition

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/
Audio (file)

Participle

assistant

present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

assistant

Derived terms

assistant numérique personnel

Descendants

→ Turkish: asistan

Latin assistant definition

Verb

assistant

third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

Middle French assistant definition

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 assistant definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

(Jersey) assistant

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assistant definition

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English assistant definition

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Etymology

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Adjective

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Noun

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Derived terms

Related terms

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Anagrams

French assistant definition

Pronunciation

Participle

Noun

Derived terms

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Latin assistant definition

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Middle French assistant definition

Verb

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Norman assistant definition

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