Meaning of "help"

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

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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

succor

n.
• • help: saklolo, tulong

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

cooperate

v.
• • to help one another: makipagtulungan, magtulungan

favor

n.
• • 1. kindness, an act of generosity: kagandahang-loob, kabutihang-loob, pabor
  • 2. help, big help: tulong, malaking tulong
  • 3. favoritism, bias: pagkampi, pagkiling, pagpanig, pagtatangi
  • 4. to do a favor, to help: tumulong, tulungan
  • 5. to ask a favor: humingi ng tulong

v.
• • 1. to oblige: magpaunlak, paunlakan, magbigay, pagbigyan
  • 2. to give more than is fair to, to take the side of someone: kumampi, kampihan, kumiling, kilingan, pumanig, panigan
  • 3. to support, esp. a prospect or candidacy: tumangkilik, tangkilikin
  • 4. to approve, to agree with: sumang-ayon, sang-ayunan

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

damay

v.
• • dumamay (-um-) to help, to console, to sympathize. Dumamay sila sa amin. They helped us. mangdamay, idamay (mang-:i-)

v.
• • to involve others (without notice) in a sort of unpleasant situation. Huwag mo kaming idamay. Don't involve us (in this mess).

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.

lingkod

v.
• • maglingkod, paglingkuran (mag-:pag-an) to serve, to give or offer service. Maglingkod ka sa mga nangangailangan. Help those who are in need.

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.