Meaning of "aid"

aid •

n.
• • 1. help, support: tulong, pantulong
  • 2. succor, relief: saklolo
  • 3. a helper, an assistant: katulong

v.
• • 1. to help: tumulong, tulungan
  • 2. to give relief: sumaklolo, saklolohan

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cane

n.
• • 1. a stick used as an aid in walking: baston, tungkod
  • 2. sugar cane: tubo

v.
• • to beat with a cane: bumaston, bastunin

minister

n.
• • 1. a clergyman serving a church, spiritual guide, pastor: ministro, pastor
  • 2. person who is given charge of a department of the government: ministro
  • 3. a person sent to a foreign country to represent his own government: ministro, sugo

v.
• • to be of service or aid, be helpful: maglingkod, paglingkuran, tumulong, tulungan

help

n.
• • 1. assistance: tulong
  • 2. financial aid: abuloy
  • 3. support (moral or financial): tangkilik, pagtangkilik

v.
• • 1. to assist: tumulong, tulungan
  • 2. to help in time of affliction: dumamay, damayan
  • 3. to avoid, keep from: umiwas, iwasan
  • 4. to support: tumangkilik, tangkilikin, kumalinga, kalingain
  • 5. to lend aid, esp. in time of danger: sumaklolo, saklolohan

service

n.
• • 1. helpful act or acts, aid, being useful to others: serbisyo, paglilingkod, tulong, pagtulong
  • 2. performance of duties: paglilingkod
  • 3. advantage, benefit, use: pakinabang, kapakinabangan, buti, kabutihan
  • 4. religious meeting, religious ceremony: kulto
  • 5. the manner of serving food: serbisyo, pagsisilbi (ng pagkain)
  • 6. the food served: pagkain
  • 7. act or manner of putting a ball in play: serb, pagserb

v.
• • 1. to make fit for service: gumawa, gawin, magkumpuni, kumumpuni, kumpunihin
  • 2. at ones service, ready to do what one wants: nakalaan (nakahanda) sa paglilingkod
  • 3. of service, helpful or useful: nakatutulong, nakabubuti, mahalaga
  • 4. "the service" often means the army or navy: hukbong sandatahan
  • 5. the Civil Service: Serbisyo Sibil

succor

n.
• • help: saklolo, tulong

v.
• • to help, to aid: sumaklolo, saklolohan, tumulong, tulungan

eyeglasses

n.
• • 1. lens to aid poor vision: salamin (sa mata)
  • 2. to wear or use eyeglasses: magsalamin

support

v.
• • 1. to hold up,to keep from falling: magtukod, tukuran, mag-alalay, umalalay, alalayan
  • 2. to prop: magsuhay, suhayan
  • 3. to keep up, to help, to give strength or courage to: magtaguyod, itaguyod, tumulong, tulungan
  • 4. to provide for: magtustos, tustusan, magsustento, sustentuhan
  • 5. to be in favor of, to back up, to second: kumatig, katigan, magtaguyod, itaguyod
  • 6. to help prove, to bear out: magpatunay, patunayan, magpatotoo, patotohanan

n.
• • 1. the act of supporting, condition of being supported, help, aid: tulong, pagtulong, taguyod, pagtataguyod, tustos, pagtustos, pagtutustos, sustento, pagsustento, pagsusustento
  • 2. a person or thing that supports: tagataguyod, tagakatig, tagasustento, tagatustos
  • 3. a prop: tukod, suhay sure

adj.
• • 1. certain, free from doubt: tiyak, piho, pihado, sigurado
  • 2. safe, reliable: maaasahan, sigurado, tapat, mapagtitiwalaan
  • 3. firm: matatag adv. 1. surely, certainly (American colloquialism): sigurado, tiyak, nakatitiyak
  • 2. to be sure may sometimes mean certainly: tiyak, sigurado, pihado
  • 3. to make sure, to be certain: tumiyak, tiyakin, magsiguro, siguruhin, siguraduhin, pumiho, pihuhin

abuloy

n.
• • contribution, help fund, relief, aid, subsidy mag-abuloy, iabuloy (mag-:i-)

v.
• • to contribute. Mag-abuloy ka sa patay. Contribute (some money) for the funeral. umabuloy, abuluyan (um-:-an)

v.
• • to aid. Umabuloy ka sa kanya. Help him.

asisti

sp v.
• • to wait on, to serve umasisti, asistihan (um-:-an)

v.
• • to assist, to help, to aid, to attend. Asistihan natin ang mga nangangailangan. Let's help the needy.

saklolo

v.
• • sumaklolo (-um-) to aid, to succor, to help. Sumaklolo ang pulis sa nasaktang bata. The policeman aided the injured boy.

tulong

v.
• • tumulong (-um-) to help, to aid. Tumulong ka sa mga nangangailangan. Help those who are in need. tulungan (-an)

v.
• • to help. Tulungan mo siya. Help her.

andador

Sp n.
• • walking aid for babies