Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: gevangenis
- Amharic: penitentiary
- Arabic: السجون
- Azerbaijani: həbsxana
- Bashkir: төрмәгә
- Belarusian: турме
- Bulgarian: затвора
- Bengali: কারাগার
- Bosnian: zatvor
- Catalan: al centre penitenciari
- Cebuano: penitentiary
- Czech: věznice
- Welsh: penitentiary
- Danish: penitentiary
- German: penitentiary
- Greek: φυλακή
- Esperanto: penitenciario
- Spanish: penitenciario
- Estonian: patukahetsuse
- Basque: espetxe
- Persian: زندان
- Finnish: vankilassa
- French: pénitentiaire
- Irish: príosún
- Scottish Gaelic: penitentiary
- Galician: penitenciario
- Gujarati: જેલ
- Hebrew: הסוהר
- Hindi: penitentiary
- Croatian: zatvor
- Haitian: penitansye
- Hungarian: fegyház
- Armenian: բանտում
- Indonesian: penjara
- Icelandic: fangelsinu
- Italian: penitenziere
- Japanese: 刑
- Javanese: penitentiary
- Georgian: სასჯელაღსრულებისა
- Kazakh: түрмеде
- Khmer: ព្រៃ
- Kannada: ಸೆರೆಮನೆ
- Korean: 교도소
- Kyrgyz: түрмөдө
- Latin: paenitentiarius
- Luxembourgish: penitentiary
- Lao: penitentiary
- Lithuanian: pataisos
- Latvian: labošanas
- Malagasy: fitanana
- Mari: тюрьмаште
- Maori: penitentiary
- Macedonian: казнено
- Malayalam: penitentiary
- Mongolian: шоронд ял эдэлж байгаа
- Marathi: प्रायश्चित्ताबाबतचा
- Hill Mari: тюрьма
- Malay: penjara
- Maltese: penitenzjarji
- Burmese: penitentiary
- Nepali: पेनिटेनटेरीमा
- Dutch: gevangenis
- Norwegian: fengsel
- Punjabi: ਜੇਲ੍ਹ
- Papiamento: plenipotensiario
- Polish: więzieniu
- Portuguese: penitenciária
- Romanian: penitenciarul
- Russian: тюрьме
- Sinhalese: සිරගෙවල්
- Slovak: väznice
- Slovenian: kazenskega
- Albanian: burgu
- Serbian: затвору
- Sundanese: penitentiary
- Swedish: kriminalvården
- Swahili: penitentiary
- Tamil: penitentiary
- Telugu: penitentiary
- Tajik: зиндон
- Thai: เรื่อง
- Tagalog: bilangguan
- Turkish: cezaevi
- Tatar: төрмәдә
- Udmurt: пукетоно
- Ukrainian: тюрмі
- Urdu: penitentiary
- Uzbek: penitentiary
- Vietnamese: trại giam
- Xhosa: penitentiary
- Yiddish: פּעניטענטשערי
- Chinese: 监狱
Synonyms, close and similar words for penitentiary
- prison
- jail
- penal
- pokey
- quod
- slammer
- jailhouse
- bridewell
- correctional
- reformatory