English
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/
Noun
assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)
- Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
The volunteers offered assistance to the flood victims.
He asked for technical assistance with the computer.
Financial assistance is available for low-income families.
She could not have finished the project without his assistance.
The program provides legal assistance to immigrants.
Derived terms
Translations
aid; help; the act or result of assisting
- Afrikaans: hulp (af)
- Albanian: ndihmë (sq) f
- Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة f (musāʕada), إِمْدَاد m (ʔimdād)
- Armenian: աջակցություն (hy) (aǰakcʻutʻyun), օգնություն (hy) (ōgnutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: yardım (az), kömək (az)
- Bashkir: ярҙам (yarźam)
- Belarusian: дапамо́га f (dapamóha)
- Bengali: সাহায্য (bn) (śahajjo), মদদ (bn) (modod)
- 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 (gl) 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) (えんじょ, enjo), 助け (ja) (たすけ, tasuke), 手助け (ja) (てだすけ, tedasuke), 手伝い (ja) (てつだい, tetsudai)
- Javanese: ꦱꦿꦪ (sraya)
- Kazakh: асар (asar), бөксер (bökser), жәрдем (järdem)
- Khmer: ជំនួយ (km) (cumnuəy), កិច្ចសង្គ្រោះ (kəc sɑngkrŭəh)
- Komi-Permyak: отсӧт (otsöt)
- Korean: 도움 (ko) (doum), 원조(援助) (ko) (wonjo), 지원(支援) (ko) (jiwon)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: یارمەتی (yarmetî)
- Kyrgyz: жардам (ky) (jardam)
- Latin: adiumentum m
- Latvian: palīdzlība f
- Lithuanian: pagalba (lt) f
- Macedonian: помош (mk) f (pomoš)
- Marathi: सहाय्य n (sahāyya), मदत f (madat)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тусламж (mn) (tuslamž)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjelp (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: hjelp f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: помощь f (pomoštĭ)
- Ottoman Turkish: مساعده (müsâʼade), امداد (imdad), یاردم (yardım)
- Pannonian Rusyn: помоц f (pomoc)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: یاری (fa) (yâri), کُمَک (fa) (komak), دَسْتْیاری (fa) (dastyâri), مُعاضَدَت (fa) (mo'âzadat), اِمْداد (fa) (emdâd), مُساعِدَت (fa) (mosâ'edat), مَدَد (fa) (madad)
- 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 (yori), ёрмандӣ (yormandi), 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), medet (tr) (mostly archaic, preserved in compounds)
- Turkmen: ýardam, kömek
- Ukrainian: допомо́га (uk) f (dopomóha), по́міч f (pómič)
- Urdu: مَدَد f (madad), اِمْداد f (imdād), کُمَک f (kumak)
- Uzbek: еrdam, koʻmak (uz), yordam (uz), bermoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự giúp đỡ (vi)
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin assistentia.
Pronunciation
Noun
assistance f (plural assistances)
- assistance
- audience
Derived terms
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