a friend in need is a friend indeed - Wiktionary

There is a well-known proverb, "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Americans have always been our true friends. They stretched out warm helping hands to us ... afriendinneedisafriendindeed DefinitionfromWiktionary,thefreedictionary Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Contents 1English 1.1Etymology 1.2Pronunciation 1.3Proverb 1.3.1Usagenotes 1.3.2Translations 1.3.3Seealso 1.4References 1.5Furtherreading English[edit] WOTD–19August2021 Etymology[edit] Theideathatfalsefriendswillabandonapersonintimesofadversitywhiletruefriendswillrevealthemselvesandprovidehelpisancient:theGreekplaywrightEuripides(c. 480 –c.406B.C.E.)wroteinHecuba(424B.C.E.)thatἐντοῖςκακοῖςγὰρἁγαθοὶσαφέστατοιφίλοι:τὰχρηστὰδ’αὔθ’ἕκαστ’ἔχειφίλους(entoîskakoîsgàrhagathoìsaphéstatoiphíloi:tàkhrēstàd’aúth’hékast’ékheiphílous,“itisintrouble’shourthatthegoodmostclearlyshowtheirfriendship;thoughprosperitybyitselfineverycasefindsfriends”),andtheRomanpoetEnnius(c.239 –c.169B.C.E.)observedinhisTragediesthatamicuscertusinreincertacernitur(“asurefriendisknowninunsuretimes”).[1][2] Pronunciation[edit] (ReceivedPronunciation)IPA(key):/əˌfɹɛndɪnˈniːdɪzəˌfɹɛndɪnˈdiːd/ (GeneralAmerican)IPA(key):/əˌfɹɛndənˈnidɪzəˌfɹɛndɪnˈdid/ Rhymes:-iːd Hyphenation:afriendinneedisafriendin‧deed Proverb[edit] afriendinneedisafriendindeed Ifafriendhelpsyouwhenyouareinneed,theyareatruefriend. 1658,TheEnglishSchole-master;orCertaineRulesandHelpes,wherebytheNativesoftheNetherlandes,maybee,inaShortTime,TaughttoRead,Understand,andSpeaketheEnglishTongue. […],Amsterdam:[…]IohnBouman,OCLC1203852267,page96:Afriendinneedisafriendindeed,Eenvrientinnoot/iseenvrientinderdaet. 1661May3,JohnBramhall,“DiscourseIII.ASermonPreachedatDublin,uponthe23.ofApril,1661[Juliancalendar],beingtheDayAppointedforHisMajestiesCoronation; […]”,inJo[hn]Lymeric[pseudonym;JohnVesey],editor,TheWorksoftheMostReverendFatherinGod,JohnBramhallD.D. […],Dublin:[…]HisMajestiesPrinting-House,published1676,OCLC31033185,tomeIV,page955:Everyoneisakinſmantohimthatisproſperous,butafriendinneedisafriendindeed. 1756,“Sect.XVI.”,inTheFortune-teller;or,TheFootmanEnnobled. […],volumeII,London:[…]F.Noble […];andJ.Noble, […],OCLC695945447,page235:Itisatrueſaying,myIngenio,thataFriendinneed,isaFriendindeed,asIdoubtnotbutyouwillbefullyapprized,uponperuſalofwhatIhereſendyou. 1795,FrederickSchiller[i.e.,FriedrichSchiller],[AlexanderFraserTytler,LordWoodhouselee],transl.,TheRobbers.ATragedy. […],2ndedition,London:[…]G.G.andJ.Robinson, […],OCLC54327151,ActII,page57:Afriendinneedisafriendindeed,ſayI;—butyoucan'tjudgeofit.—No,—unleſsyouhadtheropeaboutyourneck,andwerewalkingallalivetoyourgrave. 1802February3,AaronOgden,“JudiciarySystem[ThirdReadingofthebilltorepealcertainactsrespectingtheorganizationoftheCourtsoftheUnitedStates,andforotherpurposes]”,inTheDebatesandProceedingsintheCongressoftheUnitedStates; […](UnitedStatesSenate,7thCongress),Washington,D.C.:[…]GalesandSeaton,published1851,OCLC22427751,column178:ThegentlemenontheothersideoftheHousehavebeenpeculiarlycalledthefriendsofthepeople;rememberafriendinneedisafriendindeed.Isthere,then,nosomeonewhowillstepoutfromamongthemtosavethistotteringbranchofourGovernmentfromfalling! 1875,J[ohn]Murdoch,“CompanionsandNeighbours”,inTheIndianStudent’sManual.HintsonStudies,MoralConduct,ReligiousDuties,andSuccessinLife,Madras,TamilNadu:TheChristianVernacularEducationSociety; […],OCLC24992879,page172:Friendsshouldbereadytoassisteachother.Kindofficesoughtnevertobeomitted,buttheyareespeciallycalledforinseasonsofaffliction."Afriendlovethatalltimes,andabrotherisbornforadversity.""Afriendinneedisafriendindeed." 1958September,MarvinL.Middlebrooks,“[Lettertothemagazine]”,inFlying,volume63,number3,Chicago,Ill.:Ziff-DavisPublishingCompany,ISSN0015-4806,OCLC613331916,page8:Ihadaflightplantocancelsoaskediftherewereatelephonenear.Mr.Littrellsaidhisneighboracrossthewayhadone.Hewashappytodriveusthere—aboutthreemilesacrosssomefieldsthatwouldshakeyoureyeteethout.[…]Theysay“afriendinneedisafriendindeed.”Mr.Littrellprovedit.Iamgrateful. 1999,ThomasWilliam,chapter20,inTheAlaskanSagaofThomasChurchillO’Brien,Lincoln,Neb.:toExcel,iUniverse,→ISBN,page87:ButIsattheretryingtopretendthateverythingwasOK,thatthiswasn'thappening,tryingtothinkinsteadofallthegoodthingsthathappenedtomeinmylife,tryingtothinkofsomeimportantpersonIknewwhocouldhelpme,butIcouldn'tthinkofanyone.Afriendinneedisafriend,indeed,andIsurecouldhaveusedonethen. 2007March8,CharlesE[llis]Schumer,“OpeningStatementofHon.CharlesE.Schumer,Chairman,aU.S.SenatorfromNewYork”,inAddressingtheProblemofAfrican-AmericanMaleUnemployment:HearingbeforetheJointEconomicCommittee,CongressoftheUnitedStates,OneHundredTenthCongress,FirstSession […](S.Hrg.110-107),Washington,D.C.:U.S.GovernmentPrintingOffice,→ISBN,page9:[…]I'mgoingtoturnoverthechairtomyfriend,colleague,andatthispointsomeone—afriendinneedisafriendindeed—Senator[Amy]Klobuchar. 2010,LeeMyung-bak,“Foreword”,inJaiOkShim;JamesF.Larson;FrederickF.Carriere;HoraceH.Underwood,FulbrightinKorea’sFuture:A60thAnniversaryCommemorativeHistory,Seoul,SouthKorea:SeoulSelection,→ISBN,pagevii:Thereisawell-knownproverb,"Afriendinneedisafriendindeed."Americanshavealwaysbeenourtruefriends.Theystretchedoutwarmhelpinghandstouswhenwewereindirestneed.TheFulbrightProgram,whichwasinitiatedinthethroesoftheKoreanWar,hasbeenonesuchhelpinghand. Ifoneofyourfriendsisinneedofhelp,helpthembecausetheyareyourfriend. 2011,PaulA.Rose,“Saturday;LoveisintheAir”,inLosHombresdeBolton(TheMenfromBolton),KibworthBeauchamp,Leicester:Matador,→ISBN,page153:'Stan!'Ianreplies,withahurtlookonhisface.'WouldIdoathinglikethat?I'mjustheretogiveyoumoralsupport.Ireckonyou'regoingtoneedallthehelpyoucanget.Youknowwhattheysay;afriendinneedisafriendindeed.'/'Orinyourmind,afriendinneedisasofttarget.Nowpissoff!' 2011,AppauAmaTiwaa,OurPerfectMoment,[Bloomington,Ind.]:Xlibris,→ISBN,page81:"Youknow,theysayafriendinneedisafriendindeed.Idonatedblood,butothersevendonatehearts,soafterall,IfeelprettygoodthatmyfriendisnowsafefromthelittlebloodIcoulddrop,"Katysaidpassionately. Usagenotes[edit] Thephraseisambiguous;thesecondsense(“afriend[whois]inneedisafriendindeed”)arosefromamisunderstandingoftheoriginalmeaning(“afriend[whoistherewhenyouare]inneedisafriendindeed”). Translations[edit] ifafriendhelpsyouwhenyouareinneed,theyareatruefriend Arabic:الصَّدِيقوَقْتالضِيق‎(aṣ-ṣadīqwaqtaḍ-ḍīq) Azerbaijani:dostdargündətanınar,yaxşıdostyamangündətanınar Bulgarian:прия́телвну́ждасепозна́ва(prijátelvnúždasepoznáva) Chinese: Cantonese:患難見真情,患难见真情(waan6naan6gin3zan1cing4) Mandarin:患難見真情 (zh),患难见真情 (zh)(huànnànjiànzhēnqíng) Czech:vnouzipoznášpřítele (cs) Danish:inødenkendermansinevenner Dutch:innoodleertmenzijnvriendenkennen Finnish:hädässäystävätunnetaan French:c’estdanslebesoinquel’onreconnaîtsesamis (fr) German:wahreFreundeerkenntmaninderNot,inderNoterkenntmanseineFreunde Hungarian:bajbanismerszikmegajóbarát (hu) Icelandic:sáervinur,semíraunreynist Italian:gliamicisivedononelmomentodelbisogno Japanese:まさかの時の友こそ真の友(masakanotokinotomokososhinnotomo) Khmer:មិត្តល្អគឺមិត្តក្នុងគ្រាអាសន្ន(mɨttɑɑlʼɑɑkɨɨmɨttɑɑknungkriəʼaahnnɔɔ) Macedonian:пријателотвоневолјасепознава(prijatelotvonevoljasepoznava) Malay: Jawi:صحابتيڠسبنرسديامنولوڠصحابتدالمکسوسهن‎ Rumi:sahabatyangsebenarsediamenolongsahabatdalamkesusahan Malayalam:ആവശ്യത്തിനുഉപകരിക്കുന്നവാണ്യഥാർത്ഥസുഹൃത്ത്(āvaśyattinuupakarikkunnavāṇŭyathāṟtthasuhr̥ttŭ) Mongolian:тэнхлүүнявахадтэмээгээртусалснаастэвдэжявахадтэвнээртусалсанньдээр(tenhlüünyavahadtemeegeertusalsnaastevdejyavahadtevneertusalsannĭdeer) OldEnglish:ætþearfemanscealfreondacunnian Polish:prawdziwychprzyjaciółpoznajesięwbiedzie (pl) Portuguese:amigonanecessidadeéamigodeverdade Romanian:prietenullanevoiesecunoaște Russian:другпознаётсявбеде́ (ru)(drugpoznajótsjavbedé) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic:пра̑вӣсепри̏јатељунѐвољипозна́је Roman:prȃvīseprȉjateljunèvoljipoznáje Spanish:enlamuchanecesidad,seconocealamigodeverdad(rare) Swedish:inödenprövasvännen Turkish:dostkaragündebelliolur,iyidostkaragündebelliolur Welsh:cârcywirynyringygwelir,ycârcywirynyringygwelir,ycârdilysinga'idengys Thetranslationsbelowneedtobecheckedandinsertedaboveintotheappropriatetranslationtables.SeeinstructionsatWiktionary:Entrylayout§Translations. Translationstobechecked Telugu:(pleaseverify)ఆపదలోఆదుకునేవాడేనిజమైనస్నేహితుడు(āpadalōādukunēvāḍēnijamainasnēhituḍu) Seealso[edit] all-weatherfriend,fair-weatherfriend References[edit] ^“afriendinneedisafriendindeed(alsoindeed),proverb”under“friend,n.andadj.”,inOEDOnline⁠,Oxford,Oxfordshire:OxfordUniversityPress,June2021;“afriendinneedisafriendindeed,phrase”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;OxfordUniversityPress,2019–2022. ^JuliaCresswell(2007)TheCat’sPyjamas:ThePenguinBookofClichés,London:Penguin,→ISBN. Furtherreading[edit] GregoryY.Titelman(1996)RandomHouseDictionaryofPopularProverbs&Sayings,NewYork,N.Y.:RandomHouse,→ISBN,page107. 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