English Explanatory Dictionary

ban

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  2. To summon; to call out.
  3. To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  4. To curse; to execrate.
  5. To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
noun
  1. A prohibition.
  2. A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
  3. The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
  4. A curse or anathema.
  5. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
noun
  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
  2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
noun
  1. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
noun
  1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
noun
  1. Initialism of British Approved Name.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈbæn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ban.wav [ˈbɛən] [ˈbeən] /ˈbæːn/

Word forms

ban bans banning banned bani

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Vedic Sanskrit भनति (bhánati), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.

Synonyms

forbid prohibit disallow dit hartley

Antonyms

allow permit

Related words

banns bit nat qubit banat banate

Derived words

ban overtime forban shadowban antiban argatroban ban hammer ban-hound bannable banner ban-the-bomber banworthy black ban blanket ban bonk ban centiban exit ban fissban ghostban green ban hellban instaban kickban overtime ban permaban preban reban stealthban total fire ban unban -xaban deciban

Translations

Albanian: ndalim Arabic: حَظْر Arabic: مَنْع Bashkir: тыйыу Belarusian: забаро́на Bulgarian: забра́на Bulgarian: запреще́ние Chinese Mandarin: 禁止 Czech: zákaz Danish: forbud Dutch: verbod Esperanto: malpermeso Finnish: kielto Finnish: esto Finnish: banni Finnish: bänni Finnish: banaani French: interdiction French: prohibition West-Frisian: ferbod Georgian: აკრძალვა German: Verbot Greek: απαγόρευση Hindi: बहिष्कार Hungarian: tilalom Icelandic: bann Ilocano: parit Ingrian: keelto Italian: proibizione Italian: divieto Japanese: 禁止 Khmer: បំរាម Korean: 금지 Latin: vetitum Lithuanian: draudimas Luxembourgish: Verbuet Macedonian: забрана Malayalam: നിരോധനം Marathi: बंदी Mongolian: хориг Mongolian: цээр Norwegian Bokmål: forbud Plautdietsch: Baun Polish: zakaz Polish: ban (on the internet) Portuguese: proibição Romanian: interdicție Russian: запре́т Russian: запреще́ние Russian: бан Serbo-Croatian: за̑брана Serbo-Croatian: zȃbrana Slovak: zákaz German: Ban Hungarian: bani Polish: ban Romanian: ban
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