Romance Languages:
* Spanish: cuñada (feminine), cuñado (masculine)
* Portuguese: cunhada (feminine), cunhado (masculine)
* French: belle-sœur
* Italian: cognata (feminine), cognato (masculine)
* Romanian: cumnată (feminine), cumnat (masculine)
Germanic Languages:
* German: Schwägerin (feminine), Schwager (masculine)
* Dutch: schoonzuster (feminine), schoonbroer (masculine)
* Swedish: svägerska (feminine), svåger (masculine)
* Danish: svigerinde (feminine), svoger (masculine)
* Norwegian: svigerinne (feminine), svoger (masculine)
* English: sister-in-law
Slavic Languages:
* Russian: невестка (nevestka, daughter-in-law), золовка (zolovka, sister-in-law)
* Polish: szwagierka (feminine), szwagier (masculine)
* Czech: švagrová (feminine), švagr (masculine)
* Ukrainian: невістка (nevistka, daughter-in-law), своя́к (svoyak, brother-in-law or sister-in-law)
* Serbian: snaha (feminine), zet (masculine)
Other Languages:
* Japanese: 義理の姉 (giron no ane)
* Chinese (Mandarin): 嫂子 (sǎozi, used for older brother's wife) or 弟妹 (dì mèi, used for younger brother's wife)
* Korean: 올케 (olke)
* Arabic: أخت الزوج (ukht al-zawj) (feminine), أخ الزوج (akh al-zawj) (masculine)
* Hindi: भाभी (bhaabi)
* Bengali: ভাবী (bhaabi)
* Vietnamese: chị dâu (chị dâu)
Note: Some languages, like Russian, have separate words for the wife of a brother and the wife of a sister. In some cases, different words may be used depending on the age of the sibling in relation to the speaker.