assistance

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assistō (“to stand at”). By surface analysis, assist +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɪs.təns/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪstəns

Noun

assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)

1. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

   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.

   • 2015, Gerald M. Rosen, Russell E. Glasgow, Timothy E. Moore, Manuel Barrera Jr., “9. Self-Help Therapy: Recent Developments in the Science and Business of Giving Psychology Away”, in Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr, editors, Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology, second edition, New York: The Guilford Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 245:

     Ellis (1977) suggested that the oldest and best-selling self-help text was the Bible, a document developed without the assistance of mental health professionals.

Derived terms

• anchimeric assistance
• assistance animal
• assistance dog
• coassistance
• medication assisted treatment
• nonassistance
• public assistance
• teleassistance
• welfare assistance
• writ of assistance

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 (yarðam)
• Belarusian: дапамо́га f (dapamóha)
• Bengali: সাহায্য (bn) (śahajjo), মদদ (bn) (modod)
• Bulgarian: по́мощ (bg) f (pómošt), съде́йствие (bg) n (sădéjstvie)
• 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:

  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)

• Pannonian Rusyn: помоц f (pomoc)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: یاری (fa) (yâri), کُمَک (komak), دَسْتْیاری (dastyâri), مُعاضَدَت (mo'âzadat), اِمْداد (emdâd), مُساعِدَت (mosâ'edat), مَدَد (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

  Latin: 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) (yärdäm)
• Telugu: సహాయము (te) (sahāyamu)
• Thai: ความช่วยเหลือ (th) (kwaam-chûai-lʉ̌ʉa)
• Tocharian B: ekito
• Turkish: yardım (tr), medet (tr) (mostly archaic, preserved in compounds)

  Ottoman Turkish: مساعده (müsâʼade), امداد (imdad), یاردم (yardım)

• 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)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin assistentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃s/

Noun

assistance f (plural assistances)

1. assistance
2. audience

Derived terms

• assistance publique
• porter assistance

Related terms

• assistant

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: asistans

Further reading

• “assistance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012