rehén
hostage — a person held as a guarantee to force someone else to do somethingpersona retenida como garantía para obligar a otro a cumplir algo
Comes from Arabic
رَهْن
rahn
“pledge, security”«prenda, garantía»
In Andalusi Arabic: رَهَان rahān
Arabic today says
رَهِينَة
rahīna
Root
ر ه ن
r-h-n
The article
It came in without the article.
The story
Rahn is what is left as a pledge, as in a mortgage (ar-rahn al-ʿaqārī); applied to a person, it became the hostage.Rahn es lo que se deja en prenda, como en la hipoteca (ar-rahn al-ʿaqārī); aplicado a una persona, el rehén.
In a sentence
Liberaron a los rehenes tras diez días.
They freed the hostages after ten days.
أُطْلِقَ سَرَاحُ الرَّهَائِنِ بَعْدَ عَشَرَةِ أَيَّام.
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