How was "Hodor" adapted in other languages?

Question

Spoilers for episode 5 of season 6 "The Door".

At the end of the episode we got to see how Wylis became Hodor and why all he can say is "Hodor".

If you've watched the episode you know that

"Hold the Door" became "Hodor",

But how was this shown in versions of the episode dubbed in other languages?

If the name of character is pronounced "Hodor" in other languages, then the revelation of the origins of his name would become meaningless, as for example:

"Hold the Door" in French is "tiens la porte". It would be interesting to see how the dubbed version converts it into "Hodor".

Answer 1

Brazilian Portuguese

"Segure a porta" ("Hold the door") → "a por-" → "Hodor"

Czech

"Drž vrata! Honem!" ("Hold the gate! Quick!"), where the evolution to Hodor is quite a stretch…

Danish

"Hold døren!" (subtitles, literal translation, no attempt to preserve alliteration).

Finnish

"Pitele ovea!" (subtitles, literal translation, no attempt to preserve alliteration).

French

As pradyot commented "Qu'ils n'aillent pas au-dehors!" becomes "Pas au-dehors!" and then "Hodor".

German

"Halt das Tor!" whereas *Tor* is better translates to *gate* than to *door*. This actually works well for "Hodor".

Greek

"Κράτα την πόρτα!". It sounds nothing like Hodor, so from one point on they used greek letters to write "Hold The Door" (Χολντ δε ντορ) which eventually became "Χόντορ". This is a common practice in Greek and it's called Greekglish.

Hungarian

The meaning was changed "Holtodig óvd!" ("Defend him till your death!"), this phrase can be heard only once, the phrase Hodor and Meera repeats is "Óvd jól" (guard it well). The sound for both works more or less: Holt-óv → Ho-tó → Hodor, and "óvd jól" at least has the right vowels.

Italian

First shown in English with Italian subtitles (literal), then in Italian with integral translation after one week. Translators decided for a little addition to maintain the original meaning and then make the "Hodor" works: "Blocca la porta, trova un modo!" (Hold the door, find a way!) → trova un modo → rov...odo.. → hodor

Japanese

"ホーダー" [Ho-da-] which is a transliteration of "Hodor", coming from the English "Hold the Door". Interestingly in Japanese, door is pronounced ドア (doa) which if transliterated as such would make the name a lot closer to the English pronunciation. In Japanese, "hold the door" would be ドアを持って (doa wo motte) which would have more chance of making his name something like ドアモ (Doamo) in a purely Japanese version.

Norwegian

"Hold døra!" (subtitles, literal translation, no attempt to preserve alliteration).

Russian

"затвори ход" ("close the passage") which transitions to "hodor" in quite a strange and unusual way. The word "ход" is closer to "hatchway" than "door".

Serbian

"Hodi, dobro drži vrata!" ("Come on, hold the door tightly...")... then "Hodi... dobro..." ("Come on... tightly..."), then just "hodor...". Alliteration was preserved as much as possible, while it's obviously not the best way to say it.

Spanish (Latin America)

"Déjalo cerrado". A strange way to say "keep it closed", also needs some imagination to make it work.

Spanish

"Aguanta el portón" (Not Ocluye el corredor) in Spain the word door "puerta" was replaced with main/front door "portón" in order for an easier transition to Hodor.

Swedish

"Håll dörren!" (subtitles, literal translation, no attempt to preserve alliteration).

Turkish

"Orada dur!" which means "Stand there!". It is not dubbed but subtitled. It evolves as: "Orada dur! → Ordadur! → Hordor! → Hodor!".