| Example in Arabic | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| وقبل أن ننتصر عليه، أضعفنا القتال معه جداً بدرجة أنه لم يمكننا أن نحمي أنفسنا ضد آلهة الأوليمب | And by the time we defeated him, we were too weak... to defend ourselves against the Olympians. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan | defendre,defensar | Dutch | verdedigen, verweren |
| English | defend | Esperanto | defendi |
| Faroese | verja | Finnish | puolustaa, puolustautua |
| French | défendre | German | sich wehren, verteidigen, wehren |
| Greek | αμύνομαι, αμφιταλαντεύομαι, ανάβομαι, υπερασπίζομαι, υπερασπίζω | Icelandic | verja |
| Indonesian | membela | Italian | difendere, patrocinare |
| Japanese | 防ぐ, 防衛, 防御 | Lithuanian | apginti |
| Macedonian | брани, одбрани, штити | Norwegian | forsvara, forsvare, verja, verje, verna |
| Polish | bronić, obronić, wybronić | Portuguese | defender |
| Quechua | amachay | Russian | защитить, защититься, защищать, защищаться, оборонить, оборониться, оборонять, обороняться, отстаивать, отстоять |
| Spanish | defender | Swedish | defendera, försvara |
| Thai | กำนัน, แก้ต่าง, คุ้ม, ทุ่ม | Turkish | savunmak |
| Vietnamese | bảo vệ, phòng thủ |