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aid

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /e?d/
  • Rhymes: -e?d
  • Homophone: aide

Etymology 1

From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adi?t?, adi?t?re (to assist, help). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.

Alternative forms

  • aide
  • ayde (obsolete)

Noun

aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)

  1. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
    • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
      An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.
    • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  2. (countable) A helper; an assistant.
    • It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.
  3. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
  4. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
  5. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
  6. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
  7. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuv? ("assist", verb).

Verb

aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)

  1. (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
  2. (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
    • 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)
      Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.
Synonyms
  • assist
  • befriend
  • bestand
  • cooperate
  • help
  • promote
  • relieve
  • succor
  • support
  • sustain
  • See also Thesaurus:help or Thesaurus:serve
Derived terms
  • aidable
  • aidance
  • aider
  • unaided
Related terms
  • aidant
  • aide-de-camp
Translations

Anagrams

  • -iad, Adi, DIA, Dai, Dia, I'd-a, I'da, IAD, Ida, Ida., dai, dia-

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (???id).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??id/

Postposition

aid + dative

  1. related to, relating to, having to do with
  2. concerning, about

Related terms

  • aidiyy?t

References

  • “aid” in Obastan.com.

Bau

Noun

aid

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

  1. fence

Panim

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a??/

Noun

aid

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Panim Talking Dictionary

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

  1. fence

Inflection

Derived terms

  • aidverai

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)

  1. garden

Inflection

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balm

English

Etymology

From Middle English bawme, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French baume, from Old French basme, from Latin balsamum, itself from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon). Spelling modified 16th c. to conform to Latin etymology. Doublet of balsam.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /b??m/
  • (US) IPA(key): /b?m/, /b?lm/
  • Rhymes: -??m
  • Homophone: bomb (for speakers with the father-bother merger)

Noun

balm (countable and uncountable, plural balms)

  1. Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
  2. A plant or tree yielding such substance.
  3. Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
    There is a balm in Gilead... (Spiritual)
  4. (figuratively) Something soothing.
    Classical music is a sweet balm for our sorrows.
  5. The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis
  6. Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horse balm.

Synonyms

  • (aromatic resin): balsam
  • (plant or tree): balsam
  • (soothing oil or lotion): balsam
  • (something soothing): balsam

Related terms

  • balmy
  • balsam
  • embalming

Translations

Verb

balm (third-person singular simple present balms, present participle balming, simple past and past participle balmed)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To soothe; to mitigate.

See also

  • lotion
  • ointment
  • unguent

Anagrams

  • ALBM, BAML, LBMA, Lamb, blam, lamb

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