# aid
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /eɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪd
* Homophone: aide

### Etymology 1

From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adiūtō, adiūtāre (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.

#### Alternative forms

* aide (obsolete except in sense of "aide-de-camp")
* ayde (obsolete)

#### Noun

aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)
* (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
    He came to my aid when I was foundering.
** 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.
** 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* (countable) A helper; an assistant.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 8:6:It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.
* (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
** 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16:The human is so poorly designed for aquatic adventures that he cannot even see in the water without artificial aids.
** 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone […]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
    Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants.
* (countable, British) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
** 2019, Julia Boffey, Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle, page 71:In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots two aids and two quindecims, the which two aids did not extend over two quindecims.
* (countable, British) An exchequer loan.
* (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
* (countable) Alternative form of aide (“an aide-de-camp”)
** Robert Michael Wills, They Came from the Drain (page 206)
    Suddenly, the general's aid entered the room and walked in a straight line, coming to a halt in front of the desk, standing at attention, waiting for the general to recognize him, allowing the aid to speak.
* (countable, chiefly in the plural, horse racing) The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.

##### Derived terms

* aid climbing
* aid-de-camp
* aid dog
* aidful
* aidless
* aid-major
* aidman
* aid package
* aid station
* aid worker
* band-aid
* buoyancy aid
* come to someone's aid
* deaf aid
* development aid
* first aid
* foreign aid
* grant-in-aid
* hearing aid
* impact aid
* in aid of
* job aid
* kool-aid
* ladies' aid society
* legal aid
* marital aid
* Medicaid
* mutual aid
* navaid
* nonaid
* penetration aid
* pray in aid
* rinse aid
* sex aid
* sleep aid
* soldiers' aid society
* state aid
* subaid
* teaching aid
* visual aid

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”, verb).

#### Verb

aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)
* (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:You speedy helpers […] Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
** 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club‎:Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
* (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
** 1979, American Alpine Journal, page 193:Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.

##### Synonyms

(to provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist):
* assist
* befriend
* bestand
* cooperate
* help
* promote
* relieve
* succor/succour
* support
* sustain
* Thesaurus:help
* Thesaurus:serve

##### Derived terms

* aidable
* aidance
* aid and abet
* aider
* nonaided
* unaided
* unaiding
* underaid

##### Related terms

* aidant
* aide-de-camp

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* I'da, Dia, Ida., IAD, Adi, dia-, -iad, I'd-a, Dai, DIA, DAI, dai, IDA, Ida

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑˈid/
* Audio (Baku):(file)

### Postposition

aid + dative
* related to, relating to, having to do with
* concerning, about

#### Related terms

* aidiyyət

### References

* “aid” in Obastan.com.

## Bau
### Noun

aid
* woman

### Further reading

* Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita. Cognate with Finnish aita.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑi̯d/
* Rhymes: -ɑi̯d
* Hyphenation: aid

### Noun

aid
* fence

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### References

* M. Pahomov (2022) Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 13

## Panim
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaɪɗ/

### Noun

aid
* woman

### Further reading

* Panim Talking Dictionary

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

### Noun

aid
* fence

#### Derived terms

* aidverai

### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “забор, изгородь, ограда”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Võro
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

### Noun

aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)
* garden