- Arabic: اُذْكُرْ غَائِبًا تَرَهُ (uḏkur ḡāʾiban tarahu) (Mention an absent person, and you shall see them)
- Bulgarian: говорим за вълка, а той в кошарата (govorim za vǎlka, a toj v košarata)
- Catalan: parlant del rei de Roma, entra per la porta, no es pot dir mal que no aparegui el animal
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 說曹操，曹操到 (zh), 说曹操，曹操到 (zh) (shuō Cáo Cāo, Cáo Cāo dào)
- Czech: my o vlku a vlk za dveřmi, my o vlku a vlk za humny (speak of the wolf and the wolf is behind the doors)
- Danish: når man taler om solen (when you speak of the sun)
- Dutch: als je het over de duivel hebt, dan zie je zijn staart
- Estonian: kus hundist juttu
- Finnish: siinä paha missä mainitaan
- French: quand on parle du loup (on en voit la queue) (when you speak of the wolf (you'll see his tail))
- German: wenn man vom Teufel spricht, dann kommt er
- Greek: κατά φωνή κι ο γάιδαρος (katá foní ki o gáidaros)
- Hebrew: מדברים על החמור, והחמור בא (medabrím al ha xamór, ve ha xamór ba)
- Icelandic: oft kemur illur, oft kemur illur þá um er rætt (is), oft kemur illur þá getið er, (a good one often comes when mentioned and a bad one comes when spoken of) oft kemur góður þá getið er og illur þá um er rætt
- Indonesian: panjang umur (id)
- Irish: tagann gach aon rud lena iomrá ach madadh rua agus marbhán
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- Italian: parli del diavolo (e spuntano le corna)
- Japanese: 噂をすれば (ja) (うわさをすれば, uwasa o sureba), 噂をすれば影 (ja) (うわさをすればかげ, uwasa o sureba kage), 噂をすれば影がさす (ja) (うわさをすればかげがさす, uwasa o sureba kage ga sasu)
- Korean: 호랑이도 제 말 하면 온다 (ko) (horang-ido je mal hamyeon onda)
- Latin: lupus in fābulā (the wolf in a story), lupus in sermōne (the wolf in a conversation)
- Macedonian: ни́е за во́лкот, во́лкот на́ врата (níe za vólkot, vólkot ná vrata)
- Polish: o wilku mowa (pl), o wilku mowa, a wilk tu (pl)
- Portuguese: falando do diabo
- Russian: лёгок на поми́не (ru) (ljógok na pomíne), про се́рого речь, а се́рый навстре́чь (pro sérovo rečʹ, a séryj navstréčʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: thig an donas ri iomradh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми о вуку
- Roman: mi o vuku
- Spanish: hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma
- Swedish: tala om trollen, när man talar om trollen (sv)
- Thai: ตายยาก
- Turkish: iti an, çomağı hazırla
- Welsh: sonier am ddiawl, fe ymddengys y cythraul
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