Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: die gyselaar
- Amharic: የሚሰጡዋቸውን
- Arabic: رهينة
- Azerbaijani: girov
- Bashkir: аманат
- Belarusian: закладнікі
- Bulgarian: заложници
- Bengali: জিম্মি
- Bosnian: taoca
- Catalan: ostatge
- Cebuano: hostage
- Czech: rukojmí
- Welsh: gwystl
- Danish: gidsel
- German: Geisel
- Greek: όμηρος
- Esperanto: ostaĝo
- Spanish: los rehenes
- Estonian: pantvangi
- Basque: bahitu
- Persian: گروگان
- Finnish: panttivanki
- French: en otage
- Irish: ghiall
- Scottish Gaelic: t-sìde
- Galician: refén
- Gujarati: બાન
- Hebrew: ערובה
- Hindi: बंधक
- Croatian: talac
- Haitian: an otaj
- Hungarian: túsz
- Armenian: պատանդ
- Indonesian: sandera
- Icelandic: í gíslingu
- Italian: in ostaggio
- Japanese: 人質
- Javanese: bebandan
- Georgian: მძევლად
- Kazakh: кепілдікке
- Khmer: ខ្មាំង
- Kannada: ಒತ್ತೆಯಾಳು
- Korean: 인질
- Kyrgyz: заложники
- Latin: obses
- Luxembourgish: Verhalen
- Lao: ນາ
- Lithuanian: įkaitų
- Latvian: uzbrucējs
- Malagasy: takalon'aina
- Mari: заложник
- Maori: purutia
- Macedonian: како заложник
- Malayalam: hostage
- Mongolian: барьцаанд
- Marathi: ओलिस
- Hill Mari: заложниквлӓӓт
- Malay: tebusan
- Maltese: ostaġġi
- Burmese: ဓား
- Nepali: अस्थाइ बन्दि
- Dutch: gijzeling
- Norwegian: gissel
- Punjabi: ਬੰਧਕ
- Papiamento: e kombenio
- Polish: zakładnicy
- Portuguese: refém
- Romanian: ostatic
- Russian: заложники
- Sinhalese: ප්රාණ ඇපකරුවන්
- Slovak: rukojemníkov
- Slovenian: talca
- Albanian: peng
- Serbian: таоци
- Sundanese: disandera
- Swedish: gisslan
- Swahili: mateka
- Tamil: பணயக்கைதிகள்
- Telugu: తాకట్టు
- Tajik: заложники
- Thai: เป็นตัวประกัน
- Tagalog: prenda
- Turkish: rehine
- Tatar: заложники
- Udmurt: заложникъёсты
- Ukrainian: заручники
- Urdu: یرغمال
- Uzbek: asrga
- Vietnamese: con tin
- Xhosa: hostage
- Yiddish: אָרעווניק
- Chinese: 人质