However men, seeking the contents of that safe, kidnap Hana. And those men were really detectives.
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Kidnap
//ˈkɪdnæp//
Synonyms for "kidnap" (66 found)
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144 translations across 65 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀπάγω verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Arabic
3 entries- اختطف verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- اِخْتَطَفَ verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- خَطَف verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Armenian
1 entries- առեւանգել verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Aromanian
2 entries- arachiu verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- arãchescu verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qaçırmaq verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Belarusian
2 entries- вы́красці verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- выкрада́ць verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Bulgarian
4 entries- отвличане noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- похищение noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- отвличам verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- похищавам verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Burmese
1 entries- ပြန်ပေးဆွဲ verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Catalan
4 entries- rapte noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- segrest noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- raptar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- segrestar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ڕفاندن verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 標參 /标参 verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 拐騙 /拐骗 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- 綁架 /绑架 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- 綁票 /绑票 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- 誘拐 /诱拐 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
Cornish
1 entries- denladra verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Czech
2 entries- únos noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- unést verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Danish
2 entries- bortføre verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- kidnappe verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Dutch
3 entries- ontvoering noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- kidnappen verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- ontvoeren verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Esperanto
1 entries- forkapti verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Estonian
1 entries- röövima verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Finnish
4 entries- kidnappaus noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- sieppaus noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- kaapata verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- kidnapata verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
French
4 entries- enlèvement noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- kidnapping noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- rapt noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- enlever verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Georgian
1 entries- მოტაცება verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
German
4 entries- Entführung noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- Kinderraub noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- Menschenraub noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- entführen verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Greek
1 entries- απάγω verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Hebrew
2 entries- חטיפה noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- חטף verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Hindi
2 entries- अपहरण noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- अपहरण करना verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Hungarian
3 entries- emberrablás noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- elrabol verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- embert rabol verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Icelandic
1 entries- ræna verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Ido
3 entries- rapto noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- kidnapar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- raptar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Indonesian
2 entries- penculikan noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- menculik verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Interlingua
2 entries- sequestro noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- sequestrar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Irish
1 entries- fuadach noun (an instance of kidnapping)
Italian
4 entries- rapimento noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- sequestro noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- rapire verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- sequestrare verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Japanese
4 entries- 拉致 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- 誘拐 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- 拉致る verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- 攫う verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thōhlǖkhúa verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Khmer
1 entries- ចាប់ជំរិត verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Korean
4 entries- 납치 noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- 납치하다 verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- 채가다 verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- 훔치다 verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Lao
1 entries- ລັກພາຕົວ verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Latin
2 entries- rapiō verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- raptō verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Latvian
2 entries- nolaupīt noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- nolaupīšana verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Macedonian
1 entries- киднапи́ра verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Maltese
1 entries- ħataf verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Māori
3 entries- mautāhae verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- tipua verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- tupua verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Norman
1 entries- enlever verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Norwegian
1 entries- kidnappe verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Old English
1 entries- forstelan verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Persian
1 entries- آدمربای کردن verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Polish
4 entries- porwanie noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- uprowadzenie noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- porwać verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- porywać verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Portuguese
3 entries- sequestro noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- raptar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- sequestrar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Romanian
1 entries- răpi verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Russian
4 entries- похище́ние noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- ворова́ть verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- вы́красть verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- выкра́дывать verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Sardinian
1 entries- arpiài verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- otmica noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- oteti verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Slovak
1 entries- uniesť verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Spanish
4 entries- rapto noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- secuestro noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- raptar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- secuestrar verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Swahili
1 entries- teka nyara verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Swedish
2 entries- kidnappning noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- kidnappa verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Tagalog
2 entries- dukot noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- kidnap noun (an instance of kidnapping)
Tamil
1 entries- கடத்து verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Thai
1 entries- ลักพาตัว verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཇག་ཁྲིད་བྱས verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Turkish
1 entries- kaçırmak verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ви́красти verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- викрада́ти verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sự bắt cóc noun (an instance of kidnapping)
- bắt cóc verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַוועקכאַפּן verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Yoruba
3 entries- jígbé verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- jímọ verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
- jínigbé verb (to seize and detain a person unlawfully)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Fat people are hard to kidnap.
Source: tatoeba (1128532)
Why would anybody kidnap Tom?
Source: tatoeba (1543582)
Where did you kidnap them?
Source: tatoeba (1880703)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.