assistant

English

Alternative forms

assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɪstənt/
Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
an assistant surgeon
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
- Beattie
  Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 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: 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: asîstan (ku)
Ladino:
Roman: ayudador m

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)

(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , 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 […].
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)
Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
Asturian: asistente m, f
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, f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 助理 (zo⁶ lei⁵), 助手 (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 f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
Dutch: assistent (nl) m
Esperanto: asistanto
Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi)
French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f, auxiliaire (fr) m, f
Galician: asistente m
Georgian: ასისტენტი (asisṭenṭi)
German: Assistent (de) m, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Helfer (de) m
Greek: βοηθός (el) m, f (voïthós)
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
Irish: cúntóir

Italian: assistente (it) m, f
Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu)
Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (neak cumnuəy)
Korean: 조수 (ko) (josu)
Kurdish:
Sorani: شاگرد‎‎ (ku)
Latin: optiō m
Latvian: asistents m, asistente f, palīgs m, palīdze f
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Malay: pembantu
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Maori: taituarā, kaiāwhina
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
Portuguese: assistente (pt) m, f, ajudante (pt) m, 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)
Spanish: ayudante (es) m, asistente (es) m, f
Swahili: msaidizi (sw)
Swedish: assistent (sv)
Thai: ผู้ช่วย (pûu chûay)
Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
Volapük: yufan (vo)

wizard — see wizard

Related terms

Anagrams

Satanists, satanists

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/

Verb

assistant

present participle of assister

Latin

Verb

assistant

third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

Middle French

Verb

assistant (plural assistans)

present participle 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

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