# assistant
## English
### Alternative forms

* assistaunt (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist +‎ -ant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈsɪstənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: as‧sis‧tant

### 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: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
### 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: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.
* (British) Sales assistant.
* A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
    Synonym: wizard

#### Translations

Albanian: asistent (sq) m, asistente (sq) f, ndihmës (sq) m, ndihmëtar (sq) m
Arabic: مُسَاعِد (ar) m (musāʕid), مُسَاعِدَة f (musāʕida), مُعَاوِن (ar) m (muʕāwin), مُعَاوِنَة f (muʕāwina)
Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
Asturian: asistente m or f
Azerbaijani: köməkçi (az), yardımçı
Bashkir: ярҙамсы (yarźamsı)
Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), асістэ́нт m (asistént), асістэ́нтка f (asisténtka)
Bengali: সহায়ক (bn) (śohaẏok)
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 (zo$^6$ lei$^5$), 助手 (yue) (zo$^6$ sau$^2$), 副手 (fu$^3$ sau$^2$)
Hokkien: 助理 (zh-min-nan) (chō͘-lí), 助手 (chō͘-chhiú)
Mandarin: 助理 (zh) (zhùlǐ), 助手 (zh) (zhùshǒu), 副手 (zh) (fùshǒu)
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: (ẖrj-ꜥ)
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), मददगार (hi) m (madadgār)
Hungarian: asszisztens (hu), segéd (hu)
Icelandic: aðstoðarmaður m
Ido: helpanto (io), helpero (io)
Indonesian: pembantu (id)
Irish: cúntóir
Italian: assistente (it) m or f
Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu), 手伝い (ja) (てつだい. tetsudai), アシスタント (ashisutanto)
Karelian: abuniekka
Kazakh: көмекші (kömekşı), ассистент (assistent)
Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (nĕək cumnuəy), ភូឈួយ (km) (phuu chuəy)
Korean: 조수(助手) (ko) (josu), 도우미 (doumi)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شاگرد (şagrid)
Northern Kurdish: arîkar (ku), alîkar (ku)
Kyrgyz: жардамчы (ky) (jardamcı), ассистент (ky) (assistent)
Lao: ຜູ້ຊ່ວຍ (phū suāi), ຜູ້ຮອງ (phū hǭng)
Latin: adiūtor (la) m, adiūtrix f; optiō m, administer m
Latvian: asistents m, asistente f, palīgs m, palīdze f
Lithuanian: asistentas m, asistentė f, padėjėjas m, padėjėja f
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
Marathi: सहाय्यक m (sahāyyak)
Middle English: servaunt
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: туслагч (mn) (tuslagč)
Norman: assistant m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: assistent (no) m, medhjelper m
Nynorsk: assistent m, medhjelpar m
Ottoman Turkish: یاردمجی (yardımcı), ناصر (nâsır)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: دَسْتْیار (fa) (dastyâr), آسیسْتان (fa) (âsistân), یاوَر (fa) (yâvar)
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 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 (yordamči), дастёр (dastyor), ёвар (yovar), ассистент (assistent)
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)
Urdu: مَدَدْگار m (madadgār), سَہایَک m (sahāyak), یاوَر (ur) m (yāvar)
Uyghur: ياردەمچى (yardemchi)
Uzbek: yordamchi (uz), assistent (uz)
Vietnamese: phó thủ, người phụ việc
Volapük: yufan (vo) :

### Derived terms

* assistant chief constable
* assistantly
* assistant-manage
* assistant manager
* assistant professor
* assistant referee
* assistantship
* assistant stage manager
* butler's assistant
* education assistant
* lab assistant
* laboratory assistant
* language assistant
* legal assistant
* library assistant
* personal assistant
* personal digital assistant
* physician assistant
* referee assistant
* research assistant
* shop assistant
* teaching assistant
* underassistant
* video assistant referee
* virtual assistant

### Related terms

* assist
* assistance

### References

* ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant

### Anagrams

* Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Verb

assistant
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

## Middle French
### 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
### Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

### Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)
* (Jersey) assistant