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Etymology 1
From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Cimbrian hölfe (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Luxembourgish Hëllef (“help”), Mòcheno hilf (“help”), Vilamovian hyłf (“help”), Yiddish הילף (hilf, “help”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Faroese and Icelandic hjálp (“help”), Norwegian Bokmål hjelp (“help”), Norwegian Nynorsk hjelp, hjølp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”).
Noun
help (usually uncountable, plural helps)
- (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
I need some help with my homework.
- Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
- (computing) Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
- (countable) A study aid.
I've printed out a list of math helps.
c. 2002, “Scripture Study Helps”, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[1]:In 1979 the Church published a Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Version of the Bible in English. Included in this edition were numerous helps to make a study of the scriptures more meaningful and rewarding.
- (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
The help is coming round this morning to clean. Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.
- (uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
His suicide attempts were a cry for help. He really needs help in handling customer complaints. “He’s a real road-rager.” / “Yup, he really needs help, maybe anger management.”
Usage notes
- The sense “people employed to help in the maintenance of a house” is usually an uncountable mass noun. A countable form — “a hired help”, “two hired helps” — is attested, but now less common. Helper could be used if no more specific noun is available.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:help.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
action given to provide assistance
- Afrikaans: hulp (af)
- Albanian: ndihmë (sq)
- Altai:
- Northern Altai: момочы (momočï)
- Southern Altai: болуш (boluš)
- Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة f (musāʕada), مَعُونَة (ar) f (maʕūna), مَدَد m (madad), إِمْدَاد m (ʔimdād)
- Hijazi Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة f (musāʕada)
- Juba Arabic: musada
- Moroccan Arabic: عْوين m (ʕwin)
- Aragonese: achuda f, aduya f
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝܲܪܬܵܐ f (hāyārta), ܥܘܼܕܪܵܢܵܐ m (ʿudrana)
- Classical Syriac: ܥܘܕܪܢܐ m (ʿuḏrānā)
- Armenian: օգնություն (hy) (ōgnutʻyun), աջակցություն (hy) (aǰakcʻutʻyun)
- Aromanian: agiutor n
- Assamese: সহায় (xohay)
- Asturian: ayuda (ast) f, aida (ast) f
- Avar: кумек (kumek)
- Azerbaijani: kömək (az), yardım (az), köməklik, mədəd
- Bashkir: ярҙам (yarðam)
- Basque: laguntza (eu)
- Belarusian: дапамо́га f (dapamóha)
- Bengali: সাহায্য (bn) (śahajjo), মদদ (bn) (modod)
- Bulgarian: по́мощ (bg) f (pómošt)
- Carpathian Rusyn: по́моч f (pómoč), по́міч f (pómič), помӱч f (pomüč)
- Catalan: ajuda (ca) f
- Cebuano: tabang
- Chechen: гӏо (ğo)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: бонцу (boncu), бон (bon)
- Mandarin: 幫 / 帮 (zh) (bāng), 幫助 / 帮助 (zh) (bāngzhù)
- Chukchi: вэнратгыргын (vėnratgyrgyn)
- Comorian:
- Ngazidja Comorian: nusra class 9/10
- Cornish: gweres m, skoodhyans m
- Czech: pomoc (cs) f
- Danish: hjælp (da) c
- Dutch: hulp (nl)
- Esperanto: helpo (eo)
- Estonian: abi (et)
- Extremaduran: ayua f
- Faroese: hjálp f
- Finnish: apu (fi)
- French: aide (fr) f, secours (fr) m
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: help
- Friulian: jutori m
- Galician: axuda (gl) f
- Gallurese: aggjutu, adiutoriu
- Georgian: დახმარება (daxmareba)
- German: Hilfe (de) f, Beistand (de) m
- Greek: βοήθεια (el) f (voḯtheia)
- Ancient Greek: βοήθεια f (boḗtheia), ὠφέλεια f (ōphéleia)
- Haitian Creole: èd
- Hanunoo: akay
- Hawaiian: kōkua
- Hebrew: עֶזְרָה (he) f (ʿezrá), סיוע m (si'yua)
- Hindi: मदद (hi) f (madad), सहायता (hi) f (sahāytā), उपकार (hi) m (upkār)
- Hungarian: segítség (hu)
- Icelandic: hjálp (is) f, aðstoð (is) f, fulltingi (is) n (archaic)
- Ido: helpo (io)
- Ilocano: tulong
- Indonesian: bantuan (id), pertolongan (id)
- Ingush: гӏо (ğo)
- Interlingua: adjuta, succurso
- Irish: cabhair f, cuidiú m, cúnamh m
- Italian: aiuto (it) m, ausilio (it) m
- Ivatan: kasidung
- Japanese: 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), 援助 (ja) (えんじょ, enjo), ヘルプ (ja) (herupu)
- Kaitag: кумек (kumek)
- Kapampangan: saup
- Kashubian: pòmòc f
- Kazakh: көмек (kk) (kömek), жәрдем (järdem)
- Khmer: ជំនួយ (km) (cumnuəy), កិច្ចសង្គ្រោះ (kəc sɑngkrŭəh)
- Korean: 도움 (ko) (doum), 원조(援助) (ko) (wonjo)
- Kumyk: болушлукъ (boluşluq)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: یارمەتی (yarmetî)
- Northern Kurdish: alîkarî (ku) f, destek (ku) f, yarmetî (ku) f, komekî (ku) f, piştevanî (ku) f, piştgirî (ku) f, misaede (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: жардам (ky) (jardam), көмөк (kömök)
- Ladino:
- Hebrew: אייודה f
- Latin: ayuda f
- Latin: auxilium n, adiumentum n
- Latvian: palīdzība f
- Lithuanian: pagalba (lt)
- Luxembourgish: Hëllef (lb) f
- Macedonian: помош (mk) f (pomoš)
- Malay: pertolongan, bantuan (ms)
- Malayalam: സഹായം (ml) (sahāyaṁ)
- Maltese: għajnuna (mt), għajnuna (mt) f
- Mauritian Creole: ed, led
- Mòcheno: hilf f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тусламж (mn) (tuslamž)
- Nepali: सहयोग (ne) (sahayog), मदत् (madat)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjelp (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: hjelp f
- Odia: ସହାୟତା (sahāyatā)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: помощь f (pomoštĭ)
- Oromo: gargaarsa
- Ossetian: ӕххуыс (æxx°ys)
- Pannonian Rusyn: помоц f (pomoc)
- Persian:
- Dari: کُمَک (kumak), یَارِی (yārī), مَدَد (madad), اِمْدَاد (imdād), مُسَاعَدَت (musā'adat), دَسْتْیَارِی (dastyārī), مُعَاضَدَت (mu'āzadat)
- Iranian Persian: کُمَک (komak), یاری (fa) (yâri), مَدَد (madad), اِمْداد (emdâd), مُساعِدَت (mosâ'edat), دَسْتْیاری (dastyâri), مُعاضَدَت (mo'âzadat)
- Plautdietsch: Help f
- Polish: pomoc (pl) f
- Portuguese: ajuda (pt) f, socorro (pt) m, auxílio (pt) m
- Réunion Creole French: lèd
- Romanian: ajutor (ro) n, asistență (ro) f
- Russian: по́мощь (ru) f (pómoščʹ)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: aggiudu
- Logudorese: ayudu, azudu
- Sassarese: aggiuddu
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏мо̄ћ f
- Latin: pȍmōć f
- Sicilian: ajutu (scn)
- Slovak: pomoc f
- Slovene: pomoč (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pomoc f
- Upper Sorbian: pomoc f
- Spanish: ayuda (es) f, socorro (es) m, auxilio (es) m
- Swahili: msaada (sw)
- Swedish: hjälp (sv) c
- Tagalog: tulong
- Tajik: кӯмак (tg) (kümak), ёрӣ (yori), ёрдам (yordam), мадад (madad), имдод (imdod), ёрмандӣ (yormandi), мусоадат (musoadat), мусоидат (tg) (musoyidat)
- Tamil: உதவி (ta) (utavi)
- Tatar: ярдәм (tt) (yärdäm)
- Telugu: సహాయము (te) (sahāyamu), సాయము (te) (sāyamu)
- Thai: ความช่วยเหลือ (th) (kwaam-chûai-lʉ̌ʉa)
- Tibetan: རོགས (rogs), རོགས་རམ (rogs ram), ཕྱག་རོགས (phyag rogs) (honorific)
- Tocharian B: ekito, upacai
- Tokelauan: fehoahoani
- Turkish: yardım (tr), imdat (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: یاردم (yardım), امداد (imdad)
- Turkmen: ýardam, kömek
- Ukrainian: допомо́га (uk) f (dopomóha), по́міч f (pómič)
- Urdu: مَدَد f (madad), کُمَک f (kumak), اِمْداد f (imdād), مُساعِدَت f (musā'idat)
- Uyghur: ياردەم (yardem), مەدەت (medet)
- Uzbek: yordam (uz), bermoq (uz), koʻmak (uz), madad (uz)
- Vietnamese: giúp (vi) (𠢞), giúp đỡ (vi), trợ giúp (vi) (助𠢞), hỗ trợ (vi)
- Volapük: yuf (vo)
- Walloon: aidance (wa) f, aidaedje (wa) m, aide (wa) f
- Welsh: help (cy) m, cymorth (cy) m, cynhorthwy m, help llaw m
- Wolaytta: maaduwa
- Yaghnobi: ёрдам (yordam)
- Yakut: көмө (kömö)
- Yiddish: הילף f (hilf)
- Zazaki: phasti, yardım
- Zhuang: bangcoh, bang
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person or persons who provides assistance with some task
- Albanian: ndihmes asistent (sq)
- Arabic: مُسَاعِد (ar) m (musāʕid), مُسَاعِدَة f (musāʕida), مُعَاوِن (ar) m (muʕāwin), مُعَاوِنَة f (muʕāwina)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝܸܪܵܢܵܐ m (hāyirana), ܗܲܝܸܪܵܢܬܵܐ f (hāyiranta), ܥܵܕܘܿܪܵܐ m (ʿadora), ܥܵܕܘܿܪܬܵܐ f (ʿadorta)
- Classical Syriac: ܥܕܘܪܐ m (ʿāḏōrā), ܥܕܘܪܬܐ f (ʿāḏōrtā), ܡܥܕܪܢܐ m (məʿaddərānā), ܡܥܕܪܢܝܬܐ f (məʿaddərānīṯā)
- Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
- Azerbaijani: köməkçi (az), yardımçı
- Bashkir: ярҙамсы (yarðamsï)
- Basque: laguntzaile
- Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), памо́цнік m (pamócnik), памо́цніца f (pamócnica)
- Bengali: সহায়ক (bn) (śohaẏok)
- Bulgarian: помо́щник (bg) m (pomóštnik), помо́щничка f (pomóštnička)
- Burmese: အကူ (my) (a.ku)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 助手 (zh) (zhùshǒu), 助理 (zh) (zhùlǐ), 副手 (zh) (fùshǒu)
- Czech: pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
- Danish: hjælper (da) c
- Dutch: helper (nl) m, helpster (nl) f
- Esperanto: helpanto, helpisto
- Estonian: abiline (et)
- Finnish: apuri (fi), apu (fi)
- French: auxiliaire (fr) m or f, aide (fr) m or f, assistant (fr) m, assistante (fr) f
- Georgian: დამხმარე (damxmare)
- German: Hilfe (de) f, Helfer (de) m, Helferin (de) f
- Greek: βοηθός (el) m or f (voïthós)
- Ancient Greek: βοηθός m (boēthós)
- Hindi: सहायक (hi) m (sahāyak)
- Icelandic: hjálp (is) f, hjálparhella f
- Indonesian: pembantu (id), penolong (id)
- Italian: aiutante (it) m or f
- Japanese: 手伝い (ja) (てつだい, tetsudai), 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu)
- Kazakh: көмекші (kömekši)
- Korean: 도우미 (doumi), 조수(助手) (ko) (josu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: arîkar (ku), alîkar (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жардамчы (ky) (jardamcı)
- Latvian: palīgs m, palīdze f
- Lithuanian: padėjėjas m, padėjėja f
- Macedonian: помошник m (pomošnik), помошничка f (pomošnička)
- Malayalam: സഹായി (ml) (sahāyi)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: туслагч (mn) (tuslagč)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjelp (no) m or f, hjelper (no) m
- Nynorsk: hjelp f
- Pannonian Rusyn: помоцнїк m (pomocnjik), помоцнїца f (pomocnjica)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: دَسْتْیار (dastyâr)
- Polish: pomocnik (pl) m, pomocnica (pl) f, pomoc (pl) f
- Portuguese: ajudante (pt) m, servente (pt) m
- Romanian: ajutor (ro) m, ajutoare (ro) f
- Russian: помо́щник (ru) m (pomóščnik), помо́щница (ru) f (pomóščnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: помо̀ћнӣк m, помо̀ћница f
- Latin: pomòćnīk m, pomòćnica f
- Slovak: pomocník m, pomocníčka f
- Slovene: pomagáč m, pomagáčka f, pomočnik m, pomočnica f
- Spanish: mucamo (es) m, fámulo (es) m
- Swahili: msaada (sw)
- Swedish: medhjälpare (sv) c
- Tajik: ёрдамчӣ (yordamči), дастёр (dastyor)
- Tatar: ярдәмче (tt) (yärdämçe)
- Tibetan: རོགས་པ (rogs pa), ཕན་གྲོགས (phan grogs), ཕྱག་རོགས (phyag rogs) (honorific)
- Turkish: yardımcı (tr)
- Turkmen: kömekçi
- Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja)
- Urdu: مَدَدْگار m (madadgār)
- Uyghur: ياردەمچى (yardemchi)
- Uzbek: yordamchi (uz)
- Walloon: aidant (wa) m
- Welsh: helpwr m, cynorthwyydd m
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person employed to help in the maintenance of a house textual support of a software application Translations to be checked Etymology 2
From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan (“to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure”), from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with North Frisian halep, heelpe, help (“to help”), Saterland Frisian hälpe (“to help”), West Frisian helpe (“to help”), Cimbrian hölfan (“to help”), Dutch helpen (“to help”), German helfen (“to help”), Low German helpen, hölpen, hülpen (“to help”), Luxembourgish hëllefen (“to help”), Yiddish העלפֿן (helfn, “to help”), Danish hjælpe (“to help”), Faroese and Icelandic hjálpa (“to help”), Norwegian Bokmål hjelpe (“to help”), Norwegian Nynorsk hjelpa, hjelpe (“to help”), Swedish hjälpa (“to help”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽 (hilpan, “to help”), Lithuanian šelpti (“to help, support”).
Verb
help (third-person singular simple present helps, present participle helping, simple past helped or (archaic) holp, past participle helped or (archaic) holp or (archaic) holpen)
- (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
- Synonym: see through
He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76:Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
- (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
It is polite to help your guests to food before serving yourself. Help yourself to whatever's in the fridge.
- (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter. If you want to get a job, it helps to have some prior experience. I've already taken three pills, but they don't seem to help my headache.
- (intransitive) To provide assistance.
She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help. Please, help!
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 72–3:Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
- (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
We couldn’t help noticing that you were late. We couldn’t help but notice that you were late. She’s trying not to smile, but she can’t help herself. Can I help it if I'm so beautiful? Can I help it that I fell in love with you? Are they going to beat us? Not if I can help it! She never does more than she can help.
- (Hong Kong, Singapore) To do something on the behalf of someone.[2]
Can you help me buy some groceries?- Underlying meaning is “Can you go do the groceries for me?”
- (Singapore, Singlish, imperative) To assist or sympathize with (the speaker); used to express displeasure, disappointment or exasperation.
- Compare Malay tolong (“help; please”) and Hokkien 導郎 / 导郎 (tō͘-lông, “help; please”)
- Help lah. ― Give me a break.
Usage notes
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Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from help (verb) Descendants
Translations
transitive: provide assistance to (someone or something)
- Afar: cate
- Afrikaans: help (af)
- Albanian: ndihmoj (sq)
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: болужар (bolužar)
- Amharic: ረዳ (räda)
- Ao:
- Arabic: سَاعَدَ (ar) (sāʕada), عَاوَنَ (ʕāwana), غَاثَ (ḡāṯa)
- Egyptian Arabic: سَاعِد (sāʕid)
- Aragonese: achudar, aduyar (an)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝܸܪ f (hāyir), ܥܵܕܹܪ m (ʿader)
- Classical Syriac: ܥܕܪ (ʿəḏar)
- Armenian: օգնել (hy) (ōgnel)
- Aromanian: agiut
- Asturian: ayudar, audar, axudar, aidar
- Azerbaijani: kömək etmək (az), yardım etmək
- Basque: lagundu
- Belarusian: памага́ць impf (pamahácʹ), памагчы́ pf (pamahčý); дапамага́ць impf (dapamahácʹ), дапамагчы́ pf (dapamahčý)
- Bengali: সাহায্য করা (bn) (śahajjo kora)
- Bidayuh:
- Bau Bidayuh: batu', batu'
- Bulgarian: пома́гам (bg) impf (pomágam), помо́гна pf (pomógna)
- Burmese: ကူ (my) (ku), ကူညီ (my) (ku-nyi)
- Catalan: ajudar (ca), aidar (ca)
- Cebuano: tabang
- Chichewa: kuthándiza
- Chinese:
- Dungan: бонцу (boncu)
- Mandarin: 幫助 / 帮助 (zh) (bāngzhù), 幫忙 / 帮忙 (zh) (bāngmáng)
- Comorian:
- Maore Comorian: usaidia
- Ngazidja Comorian: usaidia, uɗiriki (udiriki)
- Cornish: gweres, skoodhya
- Corsican: aiutà (co)
- Crimean Tatar: yardım etmek
- Czech: pomáhat (cs) impf, pomoct (cs) or pomoci (cs) pf
- Danish: hjælpe (da)
- Dutch: helpen (nl)
- Esperanto: helpi (eo)
- Estonian: aitama
- Extremaduran: ayual
- Faroese: hjálpa (fo)
- Finnish: auttaa (fi), opastaa (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: édiér
- French: aider (fr), secourir (fr)
- Frisian:
- North Frisian: (Mooring) heelpe; (Föhr-Amrum) halep
- West Frisian: helpe
- Friulian: judâ, socori
- Galician: axudar (gl), acudir (gl), valer (gl)
- Georgian: დახმარება (daxmareba)
- German: helfen (de)
- Low German: helpen (nds)
- Middle High German: hëlfen
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽 (hilpan), 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽 (gahilpan)
- Greek: βοηθώ (el) (voïthó), συντρέχω (el) (syntrécho)
- Ancient Greek: ὠφελέω (ōpheléō), συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō) (+ dative)
- Ancient Greek: βοηθέω (boēthéō)
- Haitian Creole: ede
- Hawaiian: kōkua
- Hebrew: עזר (he) ('azár), סייע m (siyéa')
- Higaonon: tabang
- Hiligaynon: abáng-ábang
- Hindi: मदद करना (madad karnā)
- Hungarian: elősegít (hu), segít (hu), támogat (hu)
- Icelandic: hjálpa (is)
- Ido: helpar (io)
- Ilocano: tumulong, manulong, tulungan
- Indonesian: bantu (id)
- Interlingua: adjutar (ia), succurrer
- Irish: cuidigh le, cabhraigh le
- Old Irish: con·gní
- Italian: aiutare (it)
- Ivatan: manidung, sumidung
- Japanese: 助ける (ja) (たすける, tasukeru), 手伝う (ja) (てつだう, tetsudau)
- Javanese: nulung (jv)
- Old Javanese: tuluṅ
- Kazakh: болысу (bolısuw), ермек ету (ermek etüw), жәрдем беру (järdem berüw), көмек көрсету (kömek körsetüw), көмектесу (kömektesüw)
- Khmer: ជួយ (km) (cuə yɔɔ)
- Korean: 돕다 (ko) (dopda)
- Kumyk: болушмакъ (boluşmaq)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: یارمەتی دان (yarmetî dan)
- Kyrgyz: жардам көрсөтүү (jardam körsötüü), жардам кылуу (jardam kıluu), жардам берүү (ky) (jardam berüü), көмөк берүү (kömök berüü)
- Ladino: ayudar
- Lao: ຊ່ອຍ (sǭi), ຊ່ວຽ (suāi)
- Latin: adiuvō (la), iuvō
- Latvian: līdzēt, palīdzēt
- Lingala: kosálisa
- Lithuanian: padėti (lt)
- Lombard: iuttà (lmo), vütà
- Lutuv: bya
- Luxembourgish: hëllefen (lb)
- Macedonian: помага (pomaga)
- Malay: tolong (ms), bantu (ms)
- Brunei Malay: tulung
- Manobo:
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: tavang, uɣup
- Mansaka: tabang
- Māori: āwhinatanga
- Maranao: tabang, ogop
- Marathi: मदत करणे (madat karṇe)
- Mauritian Creole: ede
- Nahuatl: palehuia
- Navajo: bíká iishyeed
- Neapolitan: ajutà
- Nepali: मदत गर्नु (madat garnu)
- Norman: aîdgi (Jersey)
- Norwegian: hjelpe (no)
- Nǀuu: hui, huia, huli (eastern dialect)
- Occitan: ajudar (oc), aidar (oc)
- Old English: helpan
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ajudar
- Oromo: gargaaruu
- Ossetian: ӕххуыс кӕнын (æxx°ys kænyn)
- Papiamentu: yuda
- Persian: کمک کردن (fa) (komak kardan), یاری کردن (fa) (yâri kardan)
- Polish: pomagać (pl) impf, pomóc (pl) pf
- Portuguese: ajudar (pt), socorrer (pt)
- Quechua: yanapay, yanapai
- Romanian: ajuta (ro), asista (ro)
- Romansh: gidar, güder, güdar
- Russian: помога́ть (ru) impf (pomogátʹ), помо́чь (ru) pf (pomóčʹ)
- Saho: xate
- Salar: bañna
- Sanskrit: अवति (sa) (ávati)
- Sardinian: agiadai, agiuare, agiudai
- Campidanese: aggiudai
- Logudorese: aggiudare, azudare
- Sassarese: achidà, aggiuddà
- Scottish Gaelic: cuidich
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пома́гати impf, по̀моћи pf
- Latin: pomágati (sh) impf, pòmoći pf
- Shan: ၸွႆႈထႅမ် (shn) (tsāui thěm), ၸွႆႈ (shn) (tsāui)
- Sicilian: ajutari (scn)
- Sinhalese: උදව් කරනවා (udaw karanawā)
- Slovak: pomáhať impf, pomôcť pf
- Slovene: pomagati (sl)
- Spanish: ayudar (es)
- Sranan Tongo: yepi
- Sundanese: bantos
- Swahili: kusaidia (sw)
- Swedish: hjälpa (sv)
- Tagalog: tumulong, tulungan
- Tajik: ёри кардан (yor-i kardan), кумак кардан (kumak kardan)
- Tamil: உதவு (ta) (utavu)
- Tatar: ярдәм итәргә (yärdäm itärgä), ярдәм күрсәтергә (yärdäm kürsätergä)
- Tetum: tulun
- Thai: ช่วยเหลือ (th) (chûai-lʉ̌ʉa), ช่วย (th) (chûai)
- Tibetan: རོགས་པ་བྱེད (rogs pa byed), རོགས་རམ་བྱེད (rogs ram byed), རོགས་པ་གནང (rogs pa gnang) (honorific), རོགས་རམ་གནང (rogs ram gnang) (honorific), ཕྱག་རོགས་གནང (phyag rogs gnang) (honorific), ཕྱག་རོགས་ཞུ (phyag rogs zhu) (humilific)
- Tok Pisin: helpim
- Tongan: tokoni
- Turkish: yardım etmek (tr)
- Turkmen: kömekleşmek, ýardam etmek
- Ukrainian: допомага́ти (uk) impf (dopomaháty), допомогти́ pf (dopomohtý), помага́ти impf (pomaháty), помогти́ pf (pomohtý)
- Urdu: مدد کرنا (madad karnā)
- Uyghur: ياردەملەشمەك (yardemleshmek), ياردەم بەرمەك (yardem bermek)
- Uzbek: qarashmoq (uz), yordam bermoq, yordamlashmoq (uz)
- Venetan: jutar, giutar (vec), agiutar, aidar, daidar, alturiar
- Vietnamese: giúp (vi), giúp đỡ (vi)
- Welsh: helpu (cy), cynorthwyo (cy)
- Yiddish: העלפֿן (helfn)
- Yucatec Maya: áant
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
- Zyphe: bong
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contribute in some way to intransitive: provide assistance
- Bulgarian: помагам (bg) (pomagam)
- Cornish: gweres, skoodhya
- Estonian: abistama (et)
- Finnish: auttaa (fi)
- French: aider (fr)
- Galician: acudir (gl), axudar (gl), valer (gl)
- Greek: βοηθώ (el) (voïthó)
- Ancient Greek: βοηθῶ (boēthô)
- Indonesian: membantu (id), menolong (id)
- Italian: aiutare (it)
- Latvian: palīdzēt
- Macedonian: помага (pomaga)
- Norwegian: hjelpe til, hjelpe (no)
- Portuguese: ajudar (pt), auxiliar (pt)
- Romanian: ajuta (ro), asista (ro)
- Russian: помога́ть (ru) impf (pomogátʹ), помо́чь (ru) pf (pomóčʹ)
- Slovene: pomagati (sl)
- Swahili: msaada (sw)
- Telugu: సహాయపడు (sahāyapaḍu), సాయం చేయు (sāyaṁ cēyu)
- Tibetan: རོགས་པ་བྱེད (rogs pa byed), རོགས་རམ་བྱེད (rogs ram byed), རོགས་པ་གནང (rogs pa gnang) (honorific), རོགས་རམ་གནང (rogs ram gnang) (honorific), ཕྱག་རོགས་གནང (phyag rogs gnang) (honorific), ཕྱག་རོགས་ཞུ (phyag rogs zhu) (humilific)
- Tongan: tokoni
- Welsh: helpu (cy), cynorthwyo (cy)
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transitive: avoid or prevent help in times of need or difficulty Interjection
help!
- A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.
— Take that, you scoundrel.
— Help! Robin, help! (Robin Hood (1973))
- (Internet slang, text messaging) A way to signal uncontrollable laughter; implying the risk of dying of laughter and needing assistance.
helpppp that's too funny, did she rlly say that?
Translations
cry of distress
- Albanian: ndihmë (sq)
- Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة f (musāʕada), النَّجْدَة f (an-najda)
- Belarusian: рату́йце! (ratújcje!), дапамажы́це! (dapamažýcje!), на дапамо́гу! (na dapamóhu!)
- Bengali: বাঁচাও (bn) (bãcaō)
- Bulgarian: по́мощ (bg) (pómošt)
- Burmese: ကယ်ပါ (kaipa)
- Catalan: socors (ca), auxili (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 救命 (gau3 meng6)
- Hokkien: 鬥我 / 斗我 (tàu góa, literally “help me”), 救我 (kiù góa, literally “rescue me”)
- Mandarin: 救命 (zh) (jiùmìng)
- Cornish: harow
- Czech: pomoc (cs)
- Danish: hjælp (da)
- Dutch: help! (nl), hulp! (nl)
- Erzya: лездадо! (lezdado!)
- Esperanto: helpon (eo), help! (eo)
- Estonian: appi (et)
- Faroese: hjálp
- Finnish: apua (fi)
- French: au secours (fr), à l’aide (fr), à moi (fr), à nous
- Galician: socorro (gl), axuda (gl), valédeme, acudídeme
- Georgian: მიშველეთ (mišvelet)
- German: Hilfe (de), zu Hilfe
- Greek: βοήθεια (el) (voḯtheia)
- Hebrew: הַצִּילוּ (hatsílu)
- Hungarian: segítség! (hu)
- Icelandic: hjálp (is)
- Italian: aiuto (it)
- Japanese: 助けて (ja) (たすけて, tasukete)
- Korean: 도와주세요 (dowa-juseyo)
- Latin: aiutum
- Latvian: palīgā
- Lithuanian: padėkite (lt)
- Macedonian: помош (mk) (pomoš)
- Malay: tolong! (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjelp (no)
- Pannonian Rusyn: помоц (pomoc), помагайце (pomahajce), рата (rata) (Kucura)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کُمَک (fa) (komak)
- Polish: pomocy (pl), ratunku (pl)
- Portuguese: socorro (pt)
- Romanian: săriți (ro), ajutor (ro)
- Russian: помоги́те (ru) (pomogíte), на по́мощь! (na pómoščʹ!), спаси́те! (spasíte!), спаса́йте! (ru) (spasájte!)
- Sami:
- Northern Sami: veahkki!
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у помоћ
- Latin: u pomoć
- Slovak: pomoc
- Slovene: na pomoč
- Spanish: socorro (es), auxilio (es), ayuda (es) f
- Swedish: hjälp (sv)
- Tagalog: tulong, saklolo
- Thai: ช่วยด้วย (chûai-dûai)
- Turkish: imdat (tr)
- Ukrainian: ряту́йте! (rjatújte!), допоможі́ть! (dopomožítʹ!), на допомо́гу! (na dopomóhu!)
- Welsh: help (cy)
- Wolaytta: maadda
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References
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 2, page 88.
- ^ Tony T.N. Hung (2012), chapter 7, in Ee-Ling Low, Azirah Hashim, editors, English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 126: “In HKE, the implication is usually to do something on behalf of someone, and not just to assist someone in doing it. For example, when someone asks you “Can you help me wash the dishes?”, the expectation is that you will do it for (rather than with) that person.”
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch helpen, from Middle Dutch helpen, from Old Dutch helpan, from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, from Proto-Germanic *helpaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
help (present help, present participle helpende, past participle gehelp)
- to help
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Interjection
help!
- help!
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
help
- inflection of helpen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Esperanto
Etymology
From the bare root of helpi, following the model of English help! considered as internationally understood.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /help/
- Rhymes: -elp
- Syllabification: help
Interjection
help
- Help! (as a cry of distress)
Further reading
North Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Frisian helpa, from Proto-West Germanic *helpan.
Pronunciation
Verb
help (present help, 2nd singular helpst, 3rd singular helpt, past holp, perfect holpen)
- (Heligoland, Sylt) to help
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *helpu, from Proto-Germanic *helpō.
Pronunciation
Noun
help f
- help
c. 1000, The Rune Poem:ᚾ byþ nearu on brēostan, weorþeþ hī ðēah oft niþa bearnum tō helpe and tō hǣle ġehwæþre, ġif hī his hlystaþ ǣror.- Need is burdensome on breasts, however it often comes itself to be to the sons of men as a help and as a healing of each, if they hear it before.
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
Descendants
Further reading
Old Norse
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /help/
Verb
help
- first-person singular present indicative active of hjalpa
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English help.
Pronunciation
Noun
help m (not mutable, uncountable)
- help, aid
- Synonyms: cymorth, cynhorthwy
Derived terms
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian helpe, from Proto-Germanic *helpō.
Cognate with Danish hjælp, English help, German Hilfe.
Pronunciation
Noun
help c (plural helpen, diminutive helpke)
- help, assistance, aid
- Synonyms: assistinsje, bystân
Further reading
- “help (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan, from Proto-West Germanic *helpan.
Pronunciation
Verb
help
- to help
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 104:He zide hea'de help mee udh o' hoan- He said he'd help me out of hand
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104
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