help

Etymology 1
From, from , from , , , from ,.

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Noun

 * 1)  Action given to provide assistance; aid.
 * 2) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
 * 3)  Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
 * 4)  A study aid.
 * 5)  One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
 * 6)  Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
 * 1)  A study aid.
 * 2)  One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
 * 3)  Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
 * 1)  One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
 * 2)  Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
 * 1)  Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
 * 1)  Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة,
 * Moroccan Arabic: عْوين
 * Aragonese: achuda, aduya
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝܲܪܬܵܐ, ܥܘܼܕܪܵܢܵܐ
 * Classical Syriac: ܥܘܕܪܢܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: agiutor
 * Assamese: সহায়
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: кумек
 * Azerbaijani:, , köməklik
 * Bashkir: ярҙам
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: дапамо́га
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: tabang
 * Chechen: гӏо
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: бонцу, бон
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: вэнратгыргын
 * Cornish: gweres, skoodhyans
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Extremaduran: ayua
 * Faroese: hjálp
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: jutori
 * Galician:
 * Gallurese: aggjutu, adiutoriu
 * Georgian: დახმარება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βοήθεια, ὠφέλεια
 * Haitian Creole: èd
 * Hawaiian: kōkua
 * Hebrew:, סיוע
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: tulong
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingush: гӏо
 * Interlingua: adjuta, succurso
 * Irish: cabhair, cuidiú, cúnamh
 * Italian: ,
 * Ivatan: kasidung
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kapampangan: saup
 * Kazakh:, жәрдем
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: болушлукъ
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: یارمەتی
 * Northern Kurdish:, , , , , ,
 * Kyrgyz:, көмөк
 * Latin: auxilium, adiumentum
 * Latvian: palīdzība
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: pertolongan,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Mòcheno: hilf
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali:, मदत्
 * Ngazidja Comorian: nusra
 * Norwegian:
 * Odia: ସହାୟତା
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: помощь
 * Oromo: gargaarsa
 * Ossetian: ӕххуыс
 * Ottoman Turkish: یاردم, امداد
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Help
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: aggiudu
 * Logudorese: ayudu, azudu
 * Sassarese: aggiuddu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏мо̄ћ
 * Roman: pȍmōć
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: pomoc
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pomoc
 * Upper Sorbian: pomoc
 * Southern Altai: болуш
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tulong
 * Tajik: комак, ёри, ёрдам
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རོགས, རོགས་རམ, ཕྱག་རོགས
 * Tocharian B: ekito, upacai
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýardam, kömek
 * Ukrainian:, по́міч
 * Urdu: مدد
 * Uyghur: ياردەم
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (𠢞),,  (助𠢞),
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:, , cynhorthwy, help llaw
 * West Frisian: help
 * Yagnobi: ёрдам
 * Yakut: көмө
 * Yiddish: הילף
 * Zazaki: phasti, yardım
 * Zhuang: bangcoh, bang


 * Albanian: ndihmes
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝܸܪܵܢܵܐ, ܗܲܝܸܪܵܢܬܵܐ, ܥܵܕܘܿܪܵܐ, ܥܵܕܘܿܪܬܵܐ
 * Classical Syriac: ܥܕܘܪܐ, ܥܕܘܪܬܐ, ܡܥܕܪܢܐ, ܡܥܕܪܢܝܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, yardımçı
 * Bashkir: ярҙамсы
 * Basque: laguntzaile
 * Belarusian: памо́чнік, памо́чніца, памо́цнік, памо́цніца
 * Bulgarian:, помо́щничка
 * Czech: ,
 * Esperanto: helpanto, helpisto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დამხმარე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βοηθός
 * Icelandic:, hjálparhella
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Latvian: palīgs, palīdze
 * Macedonian: помошник, помошничка
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: помо̀ћнӣк, помо̀ћница
 * Roman: pomòćnīk, pomòćnica
 * Slovak: pomocník, pomocníčka
 * Slovene: pomagáč, pomagáčka, pomočnik, pomočnica
 * Swahili:
 * Tibetan: རོགས་པ, ཕན་གྲོགས, ཕྱག་རོགས
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: помічни́к, помічни́ця
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: helpwr, cynorthwyydd


 * Albanian: ,
 * Esperanto: servisto
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * Greek: οικιακή βοηθός
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: heimilishjálp
 * Indonesian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خزمەتکار
 * Macedonian: помошник, помошничка
 * Norwegian: hushjelp
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: gospodinjska pomočnica


 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: nápověda
 * Esperanto: helpilo,
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Portuguese: arquivo de ajuda
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: pȍmōć
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Tibetan: རོགས་རམ, རོགས་རམ་ཡིག་ཆ
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To provide assistance to (someone or something).
 * 2)  To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
 * 3)  To contribute in some way to.
 * 4)  To provide assistance.
 * 5)  To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
 * 6)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To contribute in some way to.
 * 2)  To provide assistance.
 * 3)  To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
 * 4)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
 * 2)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
 * 2)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
 * 2)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.
 * 1)  To do something on the behalf of someone.

Usage notes

 * Use 4 is often used in the imperative mood as a call for assistance.
 * In uses 1, 2, 3 and 4, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. It can also take the bare infinitive with no change in meaning.
 * In use 5, can't help is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) or, with but, the bare infinitive.
 * For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

 * ,, come to the aid of, ; See also Thesaurus:help
 * to
 * ; See also Thesaurus:assist

Translations

 * Afar: cate
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, عَاوَنَ, غَاثَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: سَاعِد
 * Aragonese: achudar,
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝܸܪ, ܥܵܕܹܪ
 * Classical Syriac: ܥܕܪ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: agiut
 * Asturian: ayudar, audar, axudar, aidar
 * Azerbaijani:, yardım etmək
 * Basque: lagundu
 * Bau Bidayuh: batu', batu'
 * Belarusian: памага́ць, памагчы́; дапамага́ць, дапамагчы́
 * Bengali:
 * Brunei Malay: tulung
 * Bulgarian:, помо́гна
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: tabang
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: бонцу
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: gweres, skoodhya
 * Corsican:
 * Crimean Tatar: yardım etmek
 * Czech:, or
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: aitama
 * Extremaduran: ayual
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Franco-Provençal: édiér
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: judâ, socori
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: დახმარება
 * German:
 * Middle High German: hëlfen
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽, 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: ὠφελέω, συλλαμβάνω
 * Ancient: βοηθέω
 * Haitian Creole: ede
 * Hawaiian: kōkua
 * Hebrew:, סייע
 * Higaonon: tabang
 * Hiligaynon: abáng-ábang
 * Hindi: मदद करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: tumulong, manulong, tulungan
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:, succurrer
 * Irish: cuidigh le, cabhraigh le
 * Old Irish: con·gní
 * Italian:
 * Ivatan: manidung, sumidung
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Old Javanese: tuluṅ
 * Kazakh: болысу, ермек ету, жәрдем беру, көмек көрсету, көмектесу
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: болушмакъ
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: یارمەتی دان
 * Kyrgyz: жардам көрсөтүү, жардам кылуу,, көмөк берүү
 * Ladino: ayudar
 * Lao: ຊ່ອຍ, ຊ່ວຽ
 * Latin:, iuvō
 * Latvian: līdzēt, palīdzēt
 * Lingala: kosálisa
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard:, vütà
 * Low German:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: помага
 * Malay: ,
 * Mansaka: tabang
 * Maore Comorian: saidia
 * Maori: āwhinatanga
 * Maranao: tabang, ogop
 * Marathi: मदत करणे
 * Nahuatl: palehuia
 * Navajo: bíká iishyeed
 * Neapolitan: ajutà
 * Nepali: मदत गर्नु
 * Ngazidja Comorian: saidia, ɗiriki
 * Norman: aîdgi
 * North Frisian: heelpe;  halep
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: helpan
 * Oromo: gargaaruu
 * Ossetian: ӕххуыс кӕнын
 * Papiamentu: yuda
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Old Portuguese: ajudar
 * Quechua: yanapay, yanapai
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: gidar, güder, güdar
 * Russian: ,
 * Saho: xate
 * Salar: bañna
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: agiadai, agiuare, agiudai
 * Campidanese: aggiudai
 * Logudorese: aggiudare, azudare
 * Sassarese: achidà, aggiuddà
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuidich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пома́гати, по̀моћи
 * Roman:, pòmoći
 * Shan: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: උදව් කරනවා
 * Slovak: pomáhať, pomôcť
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: болуш-
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: yepi
 * Sundanese: bantos
 * Swahili: kusaidia
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tumulong, tulungan
 * Tajik: ёри кардан, кумак кардан
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: ярдәм итәргә, ярдәм күрсәтергә
 * Tetum: tulun
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: རོགས་པ་བྱེད, རོགས་རམ་བྱེད, རོགས་པ་གནང, རོགས་རམ་གནང , ཕྱག་རོགས་གནང , ཕྱག་རོགས་ཞུ
 * Tok Pisin: helpim
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kömekleşmek, ýardam etmek
 * Ukrainian:, допомогти́, помага́ти, помогти́
 * Urdu: مدد کرنا
 * Uyghur: ياردەملەشمەك, ياردەم بەرمەك
 * Uzbek:, yordam bermoq,
 * Venetian: jutar,, agiutar, aidar, daidar, alturiar
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: helpe
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: tavang, uɣup
 * Yiddish: העלפֿן
 * Yucatec Maya: áant
 * Zulu:


 * Albanian: kontribo
 * Cornish: gweres, skoodhya
 * Estonian: panustama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Latvian: palīdzēt
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: помага
 * Norwegian: bidra til, hjelpe til med
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Cornish: gweres, skoodhya
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βοηθῶ
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: palīdzēt
 * Macedonian: помага
 * Norwegian: hjelpe til,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: సహాయపడు, సాయం చేయు
 * Tibetan: རོགས་པ་བྱེད, རོགས་རམ་བྱེད, རོགས་པ་གནང, རོགས་རམ་གནང , ཕྱག་རོགས་གནང , ཕྱག་རོགས་ཞུ
 * Welsh: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian: hjelpe for
 * Welsh:

Interjection

 * 1) A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance
 * (Robin Hood (1973))
 * 1)  A way to signal uncontrollable laughter; implying the risk of dying of laughter and needing assistance.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة, النَّجْدَة
 * Belarusian: рату́йце!, дапамажы́це!, на дапамо́гу!
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ကယ်ပါ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 救命
 * Hokkien: 鬥我, 救我
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: harow
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hjálp
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , à nous
 * Galician:, , valédeme, acudídeme
 * Georgian: მიშველეთ
 * German:, zu Hilfe
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הַצִּילוּ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 助けて
 * Korean: 도와주세요
 * Latin: aiutum
 * Latvian: palīgā
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Northern Sami: veahkki!
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, на по́мощь!, спаси́те!,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у помоћ
 * Roman: u pomoć
 * Slovak: pomoc
 * Slovene: na pomoč
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tulong, saklolo
 * Thai: ช่วยด้วย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ряту́йте!, допоможі́ть!, на допомо́гу!
 * Welsh:

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to

Etymology
From the bare root of, following the model of English help! considered as internationally understood.

Interjection

 * 1) Help! (as a cry of distress)

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  to help

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) help, aid

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) help, assistance, aid

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to