English
Noun
prisoner of war (plural prisoners of war)
- A soldier or combatant who is captured by the enemy. Abbreviations POW, PW.
- As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.
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Translations
soldier or combatant captured by the enemy
- Albanian: rob lufte m
- Arabic: أَسِير اَلْحَرْب m (ʔasīr al-ḥarb), أَسِير m (ʔasīr)
- Armenian: ռազմագերի (hy) (ṙazmageri)
- Belarusian: ваеннапало́нны (vajennapalónny), пало́нны m (palónny)
- Bulgarian: военнопле́нник m (voennoplénnik)
- Burmese: စစ်သုံ့ပန်း (cacsum.pan:), သုံ့ပန်း (sum.pan:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 戰俘／战俘 (zh) (zhànfú), 战俘 (zh) (zhànfú), 俘虜／俘虏 (zh) (fúlǔ), 俘虏 (zh) (fúlǔ)
- Czech: zajatec (cs) m, válečný zajatec m
- Dutch: krijgsgevangene (nl) m or f, oorlogsgevangene m or f
- Estonian: sõjavang
- Faroese: krígsfangi m
- Finnish: sotavanki (fi)
- French: prisonnier de guerre (fr) m, prisonnière de guerre f
- Georgian: სამხედრო ტყვე (samxedro ṭq̇ve)
- German: Kriegsgefangener (de) m, Kriegsgefangene (de) f
- Greek: αιχμάλωτος πολέμου m or f (aichmálotos polémou)
- Hebrew: שָׁבוּי m (shavúy), שְׁבוּיָה f (shvuyá)
- Hindi: युद्ध-बंदी m (yuddh-bandī), बंदी (hi) m (bandī)
- Hungarian: hadifogoly (hu)
- Icelandic: stríðsfangi m
- Indonesian: tahanan perang
- Interlingua: prisionero de guerra
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- Italian: prigioniero di guerra m, prigioniera di guerra f
- Japanese: 捕虜 (ja) (ほりょ, horyo)
- Korean: 전쟁 포로 (jeonjaeng poro), 포로 (ko) (poro)
- Latin: dēditīcius m
- Malay: tahanan perang
- Navajo: yisnááh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krigsfange m
- Nynorsk: krigsfange (nn) m
- Persian: اسیر (fa) (asir)
- Polish: jeniec wojenny m pers
- Portuguese: prisioneiro de guerra m, prisioneira de guerra f
- Russian: военнопле́нный (ru) m (vojennoplénnyj), пле́нный (ru) m (plénnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: prìosanach-chogaidh m
- Slovak: zajatec m
- Spanish: prisionero de guerra m, prisionera de guerra f
- Swedish: krigsfånge (sv)
- Tatar: әсир (tt) (äsir)
- Telugu: యుద్ధ ఖైదీ (yuddha khaidī)
- Thai: เชลยศึก (chá-ləəi-sʉ̀k)
- Ukrainian: бра́нець (uk) m (bránecʹ), військовополоне́ний m (vijsʹkovopolonényj), полоне́ний m (polonényj)
- Uyghur: ئەسىر (esir)
- Vietnamese: tù binh (vi)
- Volapük: kligafanäböpäb
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