prohibit

English

Etymology

From Latin prohibeo (“I fend off, prevent, prohibit”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪbɪt

Verb

prohibit (third-person singular simple present prohibits, present participle prohibiting, simple past and past participle prohibited)

1. (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe; to make illegal or illicit.

   The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.

Synonyms

• forbid
• disallow
• ban
• See also Wikisaurus:prohibit

Related terms

• prohibition
• prohibitive

Translations

to proscribe

• Arabic: منع (mánaʕa)
• Catalan: prohibir (ca)
• Chinese: 禁止 (jìnzhǐ)
• Czech: zakázat (cs)
• Dutch: verbieden (nl)
• Finnish: kieltää (fi) (1)
• French: interdire (fr), prohiber (fr)
• Galician: prohibir (gl)
• German: verbieten (de)
• Greek: απαγορεύω (el) (apaghorévo) 
• Hungarian: megtilt (hu)
• Italian: proibire (it)

• Japanese: 禁じる (ja) (kinjiru), 禁止する (ja) (kinshisuru)
• Korean: 금하다 (geumhada)
• Latin: prohibeo (la), interdico (la)
• Latvian: aizliegt (lv)
• Polish: zakazać (pl) pf., zakazywać (pl) impf.
• Portuguese: proibir (pt)
• Quechua: amatay (qu)
• Romanian: interzice (ro)
• Russian: запрещать (ru) (zapreščát’) 
• Serbo-Croatian: zabraniti (sh)
• Spanish: prohibir (es)
• Swedish: förbjuda (sv)

See also

• interdict
• debar
• prevent
• hinder

External links

• prohibit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• prohibit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Verb

prohibit

1. Past participle of prohibir.