English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Old French hostage hoste -age )
Pronunciation
Noun
hostage (plural hostages
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
Translations
person given as a pledge or security
Afrikaans: gyselaar
Albanian: peng (sq) m
Arabic: رَهِينَة f ( rahīna )
Armenian: պատանդ (hy) ( patand )
Azerbaijani: girov (az)
Belarusian: зало́жнік m ( zalóžnik ) , зало́жніца f ( zalóžnica ) , закла́днік m ( zakládnik ) , закла́дніца f ( zakládnica )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: зало́жник m ( zalóžnik )
Burmese: ဓားစာခံ (my) ( dha:cahkam )
Catalan: ostatge (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 俘虜 ／ 俘虏 (zh) ( fúlǔ ) , 俘虏 (zh) ( fúlǔ ) , 人質 ／ 人质 (zh) ( rénzhì ) , 人质 (zh) ( rénzhì )
Czech: rukojmí (cs) n
Danish: gidsel n
Dutch: gijzelaar (nl) m
Esperanto: ostaĝo
Estonian: pantvang
Finnish: panttivanki (fi)
French: otage (fr) m
Galician: refén m or f arrafén m or f
Georgian: მძევალი ( mʒevali )
German: Geisel (de) f
Greek: όμηρος (el) c ( ómiros )
Ancient: ὅμηρος m ( hómēros )
Hebrew: בֶּן עֲרֻבָּה (he) m ( ben arubá ) , בַּת עֲרֻבָּה f ( bat aruba )
Hindi: बंधक (hi) m ( bandhak )
Hungarian: túsz (hu)
Icelandic: gísl (is) m
Indonesian: sandera (id)
Interlingua: hostage ostage
Irish: brá m giall m geall m banna m Old Irish: gíall m
Italian: ostaggio (it) m
Japanese: 人質 (ja) ( ひとじち, hitojichi )
Kazakh: аманат ( amanat )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 인질 (ko) ( injil ) (人質 (ko) ), 볼모 (ko) ( bolmo )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Kurdish:
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Kyrgyz: заложник ( zalojnik )
Lao: ຕົວຈຳນຳ ( tūa cham nam )
Latin: obses m or f
Latvian: ķīlnieks m
Lithuanian: įkaitas (lt) m
Macedonian: заложник m ( založnik )
Malay: tebusan orang tebusan
Manx: raane m
Mongolian: барьцаа (mn) ( barʹcaa )
Norwegian: gissel n
Old English: ġīsl m
Pashto: يرغمل (ps) m ( yarǧamál )
Persian: گروگان (fa) ( gerogân )
Polish: zakładnik (pl) m zakładniczka (pl) f
Portuguese: refém (pt) m or f
Romanian: ostatic (ro) m ostatică (ro) f
Russian: зало́жник (ru) m ( zalóžnik ) , зало́жница (ru) f ( zalóžnica )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: та́лац m
Roman: tálac (sh) m
Slovak: rukojemník (sk) m
Slovene: talec (sl) m
Spanish: rehén (es) m or f
Swedish: gisslan (sv) c
Tajik: гаравгон ( garavgon )
Thai: ตัวประกัน ( dtuua-bprà-gan )
Turkish: rehine (tr)
Turkmen: girew
Ukrainian: зару́чник m ( zarúčnyk ) , зару́чниця f ( zarúčnycja )
Urdu: یرغمال (ur) m ( yarġamāl )
Uyghur: تۇتقۇن ( tutqun )
Uzbek: garov (uz)
Vietnamese: con tin (vi)
Welsh: gwystl m
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Old French
Etymology
From Old French hoste -age
Noun
hostage oblique singular , m oblique plural hostages nominative singular hostages nominative plural hostage
hostage
Descendants
