hostage

English

From Old French hostage (Old French: hoste + -age)

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.

person given as a pledge or security

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, f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 俘虜 (zh), 俘虏 (zh) (fúlǔ), 人質 (zh), 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, f, arrafén m, f
Georgian: მძევალი (mʒevali)
German: Geisel (de) f
Greek: όμηρος (el) c (ómiros)
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 (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)

From Old French hoste + -age.

hostage m (oblique plural hostages, nominative singular hostages, nominative plural hostage)

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