Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: onthou
- Amharic: abstain
- Arabic: الامتناع عن التصويت
- Azerbaijani: bitərəf
- Bashkir: тыйылырға
- Belarusian: ўстрымацца
- Bulgarian: да се въздържат
- Bengali: বিরত থাকা
- Bosnian: apstiniraju
- Catalan: abstenir-se
- Cebuano: paglikay
- Czech: zdržet se hlasování
- Welsh: ymatal
- Danish: stemme
- German: verzichten
- Greek: απέχω
- Esperanto: abstini
- Spanish: abstenerse
- Estonian: hääleta
- Basque: abstentzioa
- Persian: پرهیز
- Finnish: tyhjää
- French: s'abstenir
- Irish: staonadh
- Scottish Gaelic: abstain
- Galician: absterse
- Gujarati: રહેવું
- Hebrew: להימנע
- Hindi: बचना
- Croatian: suzdržati
- Haitian: abstrenn
- Hungarian: tartózkodni
- Armenian: ձեռնպահ
- Indonesian: menjauhkan diri
- Icelandic: forðast
- Italian: astenersi
- Japanese: 賛成-反対-棄権の各
- Javanese: abstain
- Georgian: თავი შეიკავონ
- Kazakh: қалыс
- Khmer: ជៀសវាង
- Kannada: ವರ್ಜಿಸು
- Korean: 기권
- Kyrgyz: кармануу
- Latin: abstinere
- Luxembourgish: verzichten
- Lao: ລະເວັ້ນ
- Lithuanian: susilaikyti
- Latvian: atturas
- Malagasy: hifady
- Mari: тӧрлаташ
- Maori: mawehe atu
- Macedonian: воздржува
- Malayalam: വർജിക്കാനുള്ള
- Mongolian: abstain
- Marathi: राहणे
- Hill Mari: кычаш
- Malay: menahan diri
- Maltese: jastjenu
- Burmese: ကြဉ်ရှောင်
- Nepali: छुँदै
- Dutch: onthouden
- Norwegian: borte
- Punjabi: ਦੂਰ
- Papiamento: apstené
- Polish: powstrzymać się
- Portuguese: abster-se
- Romanian: mă abțin
- Russian: воздержаться
- Sinhalese: වැළකී
- Slovak: zdržať sa
- Slovenian: ne vzdrži,
- Albanian: hiqni dorë
- Serbian: уздржи
- Sundanese: abstain
- Swedish: avstå
- Swahili: kujiepusha
- Tamil: தவிர்ப்பதாக
- Telugu: దూరంగా
- Tajik: худдорӣ намудан
- Thai: abstain
- Tagalog: umiwas
- Turkish: çekimser
- Tatar: воздержаться
- Udmurt: кӧл,
- Ukrainian: утриматися
- Urdu: پرہیز
- Uzbek: o'zini tiyish
- Vietnamese: tránh
- Xhosa: abstain
- Yiddish: ייַנהאַלטנ זיך
- Chinese: 弃权
Synonyms, close and similar words for abstain
- refrain
- desist
- eschew
- forgo
- forbear
- withhold
- hold back
- forego
- relinquish
- give up