• Arabic: (sáʕada)
• Basque: lagundu
• Bulgarian: помагам
• Catalan: ajudar
• Czech: pomoct
• Danish: hjælp
• Dutch: helpen
• Esperanto: helpi
• Estonian: aitama
• Finnish: auttaa, opastaa
• French: aider
• German: helfen
• Greek: βοηθώ (vithó), συντρέχω (sintrékho)
• Hungarian: segít
• Icelandic: hjálpa
• Ido: helpar
• Indonesian: bantu
• Interlingua: adjutar, succurrer
• Italian: aiutare
• Japanese: 助ける (たすける, tasukeru)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یارمه‌تی دان

• Lithuanian: padėti
• Old English: helpan
• Persian: (komak kardan), (yâri kardan)
• Polish: pomagać
• Portuguese: ajudar, socorrer
• Romanian: ajuta, asista
• Russian: помогать , помочь
• Scottish Gaelic: cuidich
• Slovene: pomagati
• Spanish: ayudar
• Swahili: kusaidia
• Swedish: hjälpa
• Tagalog: tumulong, tulungan
• Telugu: సహాయపడు (sahaayapaDu), సాయపడు (saayapaDu)
• Thai: ช่วยเหลือ (chuey-lure)
• Turkish: yardım etmek
• West Frisian: helpe

• Romanian: ajuta
• Russian: помогать , помочь

Interjection

1. I/we desperately need assistance!

   Help! We're under attack!

Synonyms

• mayday! (used by vessels and aircraft)

Translations

Dutch

Verb

help

1. Form of The first-person singular present tense, helpen
2. Form of The imperative form, helpen

Old English

Etymology

Common *|helpo

Noun

1. help

Help is any form of assistance; propensity to help is known as helpfulness.

Help may also refer to:

In media:

• Help (British TV series), a British television comedy series
• Help (Dutch TV series), a Dutch television drama series
• H.E.L.P. (TV Series), a US television drama series
• Help (video), a documentary video by Ximena Cuevas
• "Help" (Buffy episode), a Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series episode
• The Help Album, a musical compilation album to benefit the War Child charity
• "Help" (song), a single by Lloyd Banks

Help! may refer to part of a collection of works by the rock band The Beatles:

• Help! (film), a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester starring The Beatles
• "Help!" (song), the number one single and theme song of the film
• Help! (album), the 1965 The Beatles album of which the first half is made up of songs from the film, including the song "Help!"

Help! may also refer to:

• Help! (magazine), from the creator of Mad Magazine
• The English title for an unrelated song called "An Mwé", from Kassav's 1989 album Majestik Zouk

HELP may refer to:

• Higher Education Loan Programme, an Australian student loan scheme
• Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance, a numerical model initially developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
• United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, a United States Senate Committee

See also

• Help me (disambiguation)
• Call for help - actually yelling the word "help!"
  • 9-1-1 - the emergency phone number in North America
  • Crisis hotline - Article on crisis hotlines and partial list of them.
  • List of counseling topics
• Charitable organization - organizations that help people, usually for free.
• Distress signal - another way to call for help.
  • Mayday
  • SOS
• Crisis - a stressful or dangerous situation in which one or more persons may need help.
• Emergency - a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment. A type of crisis.
• Homework help service - program in which tutors are made available to assist with a student's homework. Many libraries host homework help services.
• Online help, information or assistance provided in response to the "help" menu item or "help" command in a software program. The standard key command for online help is the F1 key.
  • Help (command), a shell command.

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