Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: gyselaars
- Amharic: hostages
- Arabic: الرهائن
- Azerbaijani: girov
- Bashkir: аманат
- Belarusian: закладнікаў
- Bulgarian: заложници
- Bengali: বন্দীদের
- Bosnian: taoci
- Catalan: ostatges
- Cebuano: bihag
- Czech: rukojmí
- Welsh: gwystlon
- Danish: gidsler
- German: Geiseln
- Greek: όμηροι
- Esperanto: ostaĝoj
- Spanish: rehenes
- Estonian: pantvangid
- Basque: gerrillak
- Persian: گروگان
- Finnish: panttivangit
- French: otages
- Irish: ngiall
- Scottish Gaelic: hostages
- Galician: reféns
- Gujarati: બાનમાં
- Hebrew: בני ערובה
- Hindi: बंधकों
- Croatian: taoci
- Haitian: otaj yo
- Hungarian: túszok
- Armenian: պատանդների
- Indonesian: sandera
- Icelandic: gísla
- Italian: ostaggi
- Japanese: 人質
- Javanese: ka
- Georgian: მძევლები
- Kazakh: адамдарды кепілдікке алған
- Khmer: ខ្មាំ
- Kannada: ಒತ್ತೆಯಾಳುಗಳನ್ನು
- Korean: 인
- Kyrgyz: барымтадагыларды
- Latin: obsides
- Luxembourgish: Geiseln
- Lao: ຕ
- Lithuanian: įkaitai
- Latvian: ķīlnieku
- Malagasy: takalonaina
- Mari: заложник
- Maori: taumau
- Macedonian: заложници
- Malayalam: hostages
- Mongolian: барьцаалсан
- Marathi: अपहरण
- Hill Mari: заложниквлӓӓт
- Malay: sandera
- Maltese: ostaġġi
- Burmese: ဓား
- Nepali: hostages
- Dutch: van gijzelaars
- Norwegian: gisler
- Punjabi: ਬੰਧਕ
- Papiamento: kombenio
- Polish: zakładników
- Portuguese: reféns
- Romanian: ostaticii
- Russian: заложников
- Sinhalese: ප්රාණ ඇපකරුවන්
- Slovak: rukojemníkov
- Slovenian: talcev
- Albanian: pengjeve
- Serbian: таоце
- Sundanese: hostages
- Swedish: gisslan
- Swahili: hostages
- Tamil: பணய கைதிகள்
- Telugu: బందీలను
- Tajik: заложников
- Thai: ตัวประกัน
- Tagalog: mga hostages
- Turkish: rehine
- Tatar: заложников
- Udmurt: заложникъёсты
- Ukrainian: заручників
- Urdu: یرغمالیوں
- Uzbek: hostages
- Vietnamese: con tin
- Xhosa: hostages
- Yiddish: כאַסטאַדזשאַז
- Chinese: 人质