- Afrikaans: perdeby, wespe
- Albanian: grerëz f, grenzë f, arëz (sq) f, anëz f, greth (sq) f
- Arabic: دَبُّور m (dabbūr), زُنْبُور m (zunbūr)
- Egyptian Arabic: دبور m (dabbūr)
- Moroccan Arabic: رزوزية f (rzoziya)
- Armenian: կրետ (hy) (kret)
- Aromanian: yeaspi f, yaspi f, ayeaspi f
- Assamese: বৰল (borol)
- Asturian: aviespa f
- Azerbaijani: eşşəkarısı (az)
- Baluchi: گوبز (gwabz)
- Bashkir: һағыҙаҡ (hağïðaq)
- Basque: liztor (eu)
- Belarusian: аса́ f (asá)
- Bengali: বোলতা (bolta)
- Bulgarian: оса́ (bg) f (osá)
- Burmese: နကျယ်ကောင် (my) (na.kyaikaung)
- Catalan: vespa (ca) f
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵕⵥⵥⵉ m (iṛẓẓi)
- Chamicuro: shani
- Chichewa: bavu
- Chinese language:
- Mandarin: 黃蜂 (zh), 黄蜂 (zh) (huángfēng), 胡蜂 (zh) (húfēng)
- Cornish: gohien f
- Czech: vosa (cs) f
- Danish: hveps (da) c, gedehams c
- Darkinjung: murulgang
- Dutch: wesp (nl) f
- Elfdalian: djietingg m
- Esperanto: vespo
- Estonian: herilane
- Faroese: vespa f
- Finnish: ampiainen (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: vépa f
- French: guêpe (fr) f
- Friulian: gjespe f, jespe f, viespe f
- Galician: avéspora (gl) f, avespa (gl) f, nespra (gl) f
- Georgian: ბზიკი (bziḳi), კრაზანა (ḳrazana)
- German: (♂♀) Wespe (de) f
- Greek: σφήκα (el) f (sfíka)
- Historical: σφήξ m or f (sphḗx)
- Greenlandic: hvepsi
- Haitian Creole: gèp, djèp
- Hebrew: צִרְעָה (he) f (tsir’ah)
- Hindi: हड्डा (hello) (haḍḍā), ततैया (hello) (tataiyā)
- Hungarian: darázs (hu)
- Icelandic: geitungur (is) m
- Irish: foiche f, seashore chapaill f, seashore ghabhair f
- Italian: vespa (it) f
- Japanese: 雀蜂 (すずめばち, suzumebachi), 蜂 (ja) (はち, hachi)
- Kapampangan: tamumu
- Kazakh: ара (kk) (ara), сона (sona), жабайы ара (jabayı ara)
- Khmer: ឱម៉ាល់ (km) (ʼaomal), ញាំង (ñĕəng), តាហ៊រ (km) (taahɔɔ)
- Korean: 말벌 (ko) (malbeol)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: زەردەواڵە (ku) (zerdewalle)
- Kyrgyz: аары (ky) (aarı)
- Lao: ໂຕຕໍ່ (tō tǭ), ຕໍ່ (tǭ)
- Latgalian: lapsine f
- Latin: vespa f, dolichovespa f
- Latvian: lapsene f
- Lithuanian: vapsva f, širšė f, (Vespa crabro) širšuolis m
- Livonian: vaps
- Low German:
- German Low German: Wöps, Wösp
- Luxembourgish: Harespel (lb)
- Macedonian: о́са f (ósa)
- Malay: tebuan, penyengat
- Maltese: żunżan m
- Manx: shellan cabbyl
- Maori: wāpi
- Center Persian: 𐭥𐭯𐭦 (ʿpz /wabz/)
- Mongolian: морин зөгий (morin zögij)
- Navajo: tsísʼnáłtsooí
- Northern Sami: vievssis
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: veps (no) m
- Nynorsk: veps m, kvefs m
- Occitan: vèspa (oc) f
- Ojibwe: ᐋᒨ (aamoo)
- Outdated Church Slavonic: оса f (osa)
- Outdated English: wæps f
- Panamint: poihna, woakuutsi
- Persian: زنبور (fa) (zanbur), گبت (fa) (gabt)
- Center Persian: wabz
- Plautdietsch: Willebie f
- Polish: osa (pl) f
- Portuguese: vespa (pt)
- Romanian: viespe (ro) f
- Romansch: vespra f, viaspra
- Russian: оса́ (ru) f (osá)
- Sardinian: espa, espe
- Scottish Gaelic: speach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀са f, зоља f
- Roman: òsa (sh) f, zolja (sh) f
- Sicilian: vespa (scn) f
- Slovak: osa f
- Slovene: ôsa (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Decrease Sorbian: wósa f
- Higher Sorbian: wosa f
- Spanish: avispa (es) f
- Swedish: geting (sv) c
- Tagalog: putakti, lulumbo, hinlulumbo
- Tajik: занбӯр (tg) (zanbür), ору (tg) (oru)
- Thai: ตัวต่อ (th) (dtua dtɔ̀ɔ), ต่อ (th) (dtɔ̀ɔ)
- Tibetan: མདུང་སྦྲང (mdung sbrang)
- Turkish: yaban arısı (tr)
- Turkmen: eşegary (tk)
- Ukrainian: оса́ f (osá)
- Urdu: تتیا (tataiyā)
- Uzbek: ari (uz)
- Venetian: brespa f, bespa f, vespa f, ciospa f
- Vietnamese: ong bắp cày (vi)
- Vilamovian: wesp f
- Volapük: vesep (vo), (older time period) lubien
- Walloon: wesse (wa) f
- Welsh: cacynen (cy) f, gwenynen feirch f, picwnen f
- Westrobothnian: gjatning m
- Wolof: njulli-kaata bi
- Yiddish: וועספּ (vesp)
