ransom
νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη → sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
payment for recovering a thing: V. κόμιστρα, τά.
ransoming: P. λύσις, ἡ (Dem. 107).
hold to ransom, v.: V. ἀποινᾶσθαι (Euripides, Rhesus 177).
verb transitive
release for a ransom.: P. λυτροῦν, ἀπολύεσθαι, ἀπολυτροῦν.
save: P. and V. σῴζω, σώζειν; see save.
Translations
noun
Arabic: فِدْيَة; Armenian: փրկագին, փրկանք; Belarusian: выкуп; Bulgarian: откуп; Catalan: rescat; Chinese Cantonese: 贖金／赎金; Mandarin: 贖金／赎金; Czech: výkupné; Danish: løsesum; Dutch: losgeld; Finnish: lunnaat, lunnasraha; French: rançon; Georgian: გამოსასყიდი; German: Lösegeld; Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃; Greek: λύτρα; Ancient Greek: ἀντίλυτρον, ἄποινα, ἀπολύτρωσις, διαλύτρωσις, ἐκλύτρωσις, ἐξαγορασία, ἐξίλασμα, λύσις, λύτρα, ποινή; Hebrew: כּוֹפֵר; Hindi: फिरौती; Hungarian: váltságdíj; Icelandic: lausnargjald, lausnarfé; Indonesian: tebusan; Italian: riscatto; Japanese: 身代金; Korean: 몸값; Latin: pretium; Macedonian: откуп; Malay: tebusan; Norwegian Bokmål: løsepenger; Persian: فدیه; Polish: okup; Portuguese: resgate; Russian: выкуп; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: откупнина; Roman: otkupnina; Slovak: výkup, výkupné; Slovene: odkupnina; Spanish: rescate; Swahili: fidia; Swedish: lösen, lösensumma; Tagalog: pantubos, panubos; Thai: ไถ่ตัว; Turkish: fidye; Ukrainian: викуп
