Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: onthouding
- Amharic: abstention
- Arabic: امتناع
- Azerbaijani: abstinence
- Bashkir: нәфсе
- Belarusian: ўстрыманне
- Bulgarian: въздържание
- Bengali: নিবৃত্তি
- Bosnian: uzdržanim
- Catalan: abstenció
- Cebuano: abstention
- Czech: člen se zdržel hlasování
- Welsh: ymatal
- Danish: hverken for eller imod
- German: Enthaltung
- Greek: αποχή
- Esperanto: sindeteno
- Spanish: la abstención
- Estonian: ei osalenud
- Basque: abstentzioa
- Persian: ممتنع
- Finnish: tyhjä
- French: l'abstention
- Irish: staonadh ó vótáil
- Scottish Gaelic: abstention
- Galician: abstención
- Gujarati: abstention
- Hebrew: נמנע
- Hindi: abstention
- Croatian: apstinencija
- Haitian: abstansyon
- Hungarian: tartózkodás
- Armenian: ժուժկալություն
- Indonesian: abstain
- Icelandic: hverjir sitja hjá
- Italian: l'astensione
- Japanese: 棄権
- Javanese: abstention
- Georgian: თავის შეკავებას
- Kazakh: қалыс қалу
- Khmer: ជាតិនីតែល
- Kannada: abstention
- Korean: 기권
- Kyrgyz: воздержание
- Latin: abstention
- Luxembourgish: Abstentioun
- Lao: abstention
- Lithuanian: susilaikė
- Latvian: atturas
- Malagasy: vato fotsy
- Mari: пӱтӧ
- Maori: abstention
- Macedonian: abstention
- Malayalam: abstention
- Mongolian: abstention
- Marathi: मतदानात तटस्थ राहणे
- Hill Mari: ата
- Malay: pantang
- Maltese: astensjoni
- Burmese: ရှောင်ကြဉ်
- Nepali: abstention
- Dutch: onthouding
- Norwegian: avstår
- Punjabi: ਛੋੜਤੀ
- Papiamento: di atencion
- Polish: abstynencja
- Portuguese: abstenção
- Romanian: abținere
- Russian: воздержание
- Sinhalese: ඡන්දය දීමෙන් වැලකී සිටීම
- Slovak: vyhýbanie sa
- Slovenian: vzdržanim glasom
- Albanian: abstenimi
- Serbian: апстиненција
- Sundanese: abstention
- Swedish: nedlagd röst
- Swahili: mwiko
- Tamil: வாக்களிக்காதது
- Telugu: abstention
- Tajik: худдорӣ
- Thai: abstention
- Tagalog: abstention
- Turkish: çekimser
- Tatar: воздержание
- Udmurt: быгатон
- Ukrainian: утримання
- Urdu: روزے
- Uzbek: abstention
- Vietnamese: phiếu
- Xhosa: abstention
- Yiddish: אָפאַלטונג
- Chinese: 弃权
Synonyms, close and similar words for abstention
- failure to appear
- celibacy
- refraining