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English
Pronunciation
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”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“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.
- Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and 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: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)
- Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة f (musāʕada), مَعُونَة (ar) f (maʕūna)
- 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)
- Aromanian: agiutor n
- Assamese: সহায় (xohay)
- Asturian: ayuda (ast) f, aida (ast) f
- Avar: кумек (kumek)
- Azerbaijani: kömək (az), yardım (az), köməklik
- Bashkir: ярҙам (yarźam)
- Basque: laguntza (eu)
- Belarusian: дапамо́га f (dapamóha)
- Bengali: সাহায্য (bn) (śahajjo), মদদ (bn) (modod)
- Bulgarian: по́мощ (bg) f (pómošt)
- 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)
- 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
- Friulian: jutori m
- Galician: axuda (gl) f
- Gallurese: aggjutu, adiutoriu
- Georgian: დახმარება (daxmareba)
- German: Hilfe (de) f
- Greek: βοήθεια (el) f (voḯtheia)
- Ancient: βοήθεια f (boḗtheia), ὠφέλεια f (ōphéleia)
- Haitian Creole: èd
- 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), ヘルプ (ja) (herupu)
- Kapampangan: saup
- Kazakh: көмек (kk) (kömek), жәрдем (järdem)
- Khmer: ជំនួយ (km) (cumnuəy)
- Korean: 도움 (ko) (doum)
- 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)
- 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
- Mòcheno: hilf f
- Mongolian: тусламж (mn) (tuslamž)
- Nepali: सहयोग (ne) (sahayog), मदत् (madat)
- Ngazidja Comorian: nusra class 9/10
- Norwegian: hjelp (no)
- Odia: ସହାୟତା (sôhayôta)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: помощь f (pomoštĭ)
- Oromo: gargaarsa
- Ossetian: ӕххуыс (æxx°ys)
- Persian: کمک (fa) (komak), یاری (fa) (yâri)
- Plautdietsch: Help f
- Polish: pomoc (pl) f
- Portuguese: ajuda (pt) f, socorro (pt) m, auxílio (pt) m
- 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
- Roman: pȍmōć f
- Sicilian: ajutu (scn)
- Slovak: pomoc f
- Slovene: pomoč (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pomoc f
- Upper Sorbian: pomoc f
- Southern Altai: болуш (boluš)
- Spanish: ayuda (es) f, socorro (es) m, auxilio (es) m
- Swahili: msaada (sw)
- Swedish: hjälp (sv) c
- Tagalog: tulong
- Tajik: комак (komak), ёри (yori), ёрдам (yordam)
- Tamil: உதவி (ta) (utavi)
- Tatar: ярдәм (tt) (yardäm)
- 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
- Turkish: yardım (tr)
- Turkmen: ýardam, kömek
- Ukrainian: допомо́га (uk) f (dopomóha), по́міч f (pómič)
- Urdu: مدد f (madad)
- Uyghur: ياردەم (yardem)
- Uzbek: yordam (uz), bermoq (uz), koʻmak (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
- West Frisian: help
- Yagnobi: 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)
- 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 (yarźamsı)
- Basque: laguntzaile
- Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), памо́цнік m (pamócnik), памо́цніца f (pamócnica)
- Bulgarian: помо́щник (bg) m (pomóštnik), помо́щничка f (pomóštnička)
- Czech: pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
- Esperanto: helpanto, helpisto
- Estonian: abiline (et)
- Finnish: apuri (fi), apu (fi)
- French: auxiliaire (fr) m or f, aide (fr)
- Georgian: დამხმარე (damxmare)
- German: Hilfe (de)
- Greek: βοηθός (el) m or f (voïthós)
- Ancient: βοηθός m (boēthós)
- Icelandic: hjálp (is) f, hjálparhella f
- Indonesian: pembantu (id), penolong (id)
- Latvian: palīgs m, palīdze f
- Macedonian: помошник m (pomošnik), помошничка f (pomošnička)
- Malayalam: സഹായി (ml) (sahāyi)
- Norwegian: hjelp (no) m or f
- 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
- Roman: pomòćnīk m, pomòćnica f
- Slovak: pomocník m, pomocníčka f
- Slovene: pomagáč m, pomagáčka f, pomočnik m, pomočnica f
- Swahili: msaada (sw)
- Tibetan: རོགས་པ (rogs pa), ཕན་གྲོགས (phan grogs), ཕྱག་རོགས (phyag rogs) (honorific)
- Turkish: yardımcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja)
- 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
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 West Frisian helpe (“to help”), Dutch helpen (“to help”), Low German helpen, hölpen (“to help”), German helfen (“to help”), Danish hjælpe (“to help”), Norwegian hjelpe (“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) holpen)
- (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, 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.
- (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, 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) To do something on the behalf of someone.
Can you help me buy some groceries?
Usage notes
Conjugation
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
transitive: provide assistance to (someone or something)
- Afar: cate
- Afrikaans: help (af)
- Albanian: ndihmë (sq)
- 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
- Bau Bidayuh: batu', batu'
- Belarusian: памага́ць impf (pamahácʹ), памагчы́ pf (pamahčý); дапамага́ць impf (dapamahácʹ), дапамагчы́ pf (dapamahčý)
- Bengali: সাহায্য করা (bn) (śahajjo kora)
- Brunei Malay: tulung
- Bulgarian: пома́гам (bg) impf (pomágam), помо́гна pf (pomógna)
- Burmese: ကူ (my) (ku), ကူညီ (my) (ku-nyi)
- Catalan: ajudar (ca), aidar (ca)
- Cebuano: tabang
- Chinese:
- Dungan: бонцу (boncu)
- Mandarin: 幫助/帮助 (zh) (bāngzhù), 幫忙/帮忙 (zh) (bāngmáng)
- 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: èdiér
- French: aider (fr), secourir (fr)
- Friulian: judâ, socori
- Galician: axudar (gl), acudir (gl), valer (gl)
- Georgian: დახმარება (daxmareba)
- German: helfen (de)
- Middle High German: hëlfen
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽 (hilpan), 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽 (gahilpan)
- Greek: βοηθώ (el) (voïthó), συντρέχω (el) (syntrécho)
- Ancient Greek: ὠφελέω (ōpheléō), συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō) (+ dative)
- Ancient: 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: segít (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 (bolysu), ермек ету (ermek etu), жәрдем беру (järdem beru), көмек көрсету (kömek körsetu), көмектесу (kömektesu)
- 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
- Low German: helpen (nds)
- Luxembourgish: hëllefen (lb)
- Macedonian: помага (pomaga)
- Malay: tolong (ms), bantu (ms)
- Mansaka: tabang
- Maore Comorian: usaidia
- Maori: āwhinatanga
- Maranao: tabang, ogop
- Marathi: मदत करणे (madat karṇe)
- Nahuatl: palehuia
- Navajo: bíká iishyeed
- Neapolitan: ajutà
- Nepali: मदत गर्नु (madat garnu)
- Ngazidja Comorian: usaidia, uɗiriki (udiriki)
- Norman: aîdgi (Jersey)
- North Frisian: (Mooring) heelpe; (Föhr-Amrum) halep
- Norwegian: hjelpe (no)
- Occitan: ajudar (oc), aidar (oc)
- Old English: helpan
- 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)
- Old Portuguese: ajudar
- Quechua: yanapay, yanapai
- Romanian: ajuta (ro), asista (ro)
- Romansch: 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
- Roman: 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)
- Southern Altai: болуш- (boluš-)
- Spanish: ayudar (es)
- Sranan Tongo: yepi
- Sundanese: bantos
- Swahili: kusaidia
- Swedish: hjälpa (sv)
- Tagalog: tumulong, tulungan
- Tajik: ёри кардан (yori kardan), кумак кардан (kumak kardan)
- Tamil: உதவு (ta) (utavu)
- Tatar: ярдәм итәргә (yardäm itärgä), ярдәм күрсәтергә (yardäm 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
- Turkish: yardım etmek (tr)
- Turkmen: kömekleşmek, ýardam etmek
- Ukrainian: допомага́ти 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)
- Venetian: jutar, giutar (vec), agiutar, aidar, daidar, alturiar
- Vietnamese: giúp (vi), giúp đỡ (vi)
- Welsh: helpu (cy), cynorthwyo (cy)
- West Frisian: helpe
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: tavang, uɣup
- Yiddish: העלפֿן (helfn)
- Yucatec Maya: áant
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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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: 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)
- Welsh: helpu (cy), cynorthwyo (cy)
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transitive: avoid or prevent
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, auxili (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 救命 (gau3 meng6)
- Hokkien: 救人 (zh-min-nan) (kiùlâng)
- Mandarin: 救命 (zh) (jiùmìng)
- Cornish: harow
- Czech: pomoc (cs)
- Danish: hjælp (da)
- Dutch: help! (nl), hulp! (nl)
- 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 (たすけて, tasukete)
- Korean: 도와주세요 (dowajuseyo)
- Latin: aiutum
- Latvian: palīgā
- Lithuanian: padėkite (lt)
- Macedonian: помош (mk) (pomoš)
- Malay: tolong! (ms)
- Northern Sami: veahkki!
- Norwegian: hjelp (no)
- Persian: کمک (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! (spasájte!)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у помоћ
- Roman: u pomoć
- Slovak: pomoc
- Slovene: na pomoč
- Spanish: socorro (es), auxilio (es), ayuda (es) f
- Swedish: hjälp (sv)
- Tagalog: tulong, saklolo
- Thai: ช่วยด้วย
- Turkish: imdat (tr)
- Ukrainian: ряту́йте! (rjatújte!), допоможі́ть! (dopomožítʹ!), на допомо́гу! (na dopomóhu!)
- Welsh: help (cy)
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References
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “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
Verb
help
- inflection of helpen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Esperanto
Etymology
From the bare root of helpi, following the model of English help! considered as internationally understood.
Interjection
help
- Help! (as a cry of distress)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *helpu, from Proto-Germanic *helpō.
Pronunciation
Noun
help f
- help
Declension
Declension of help (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
References
Old Norse
Verb
help
- first-person singular present indicative active of hjalpa
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English help.
Pronunciation
Noun
help m (uncountable, not mutable)
- help, aid
- Synonyms: cymorth, cynhorthwy
Derived terms
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian helpe, from Proto-Germanic *helpō.
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