forbidden

English

Etymology

From to forbid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɝˈbɪdən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdən

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Adjective

forbidden (comparative more forbidden, superlative most forbidden)

1. not allowed.
   • 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276

     This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.

Synonyms

• prohibited

Related terms

• taboo

Translations

not allowed

• Arabic: مَمْنُوع‏‎ (mamnūʿ)
• Armenian: արգելված (hy) (argelvac)
• Azeri: qadağan
• Bulgarian: забранен (bg) (zabranen)
• Catalan: prohibit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被禁止 (zh) (bèi jìnzhǐ), 禁止 (zh) (jìnzhǐ)

• Czech: zakázaný (cs)
• Danish: forbudt
• Dutch: verboden (nl)
• Esperanto: malpermesa; malpermesita
• Estonian: keelatud
• Finnish: kielletty (fi)
• French: interdit (fr)
• Friulian: improibît
• Galician: prohibido m
• German: verboten (de)
• Hebrew: אסור‏‎ (he) (asur)
• Hindi: मना (hi) (manā)
• Hungarian: tilos (hu)
• Ido: interdiktita
• Indonesian: dilarang (id)

• Italian: vietato (it), proibito (it)
• Japanese: 禁じられた (kinjirareta), 禁止された (ja) (kinshi sareta), 禁断の (kindan no)
• Kazakh: тыйылған (tıyılğan)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: قه‌ده‌غه‌‏‎ (ku) (qadagha)

• Macedonian: забранет (zabranet)
• Malay: dilarang
• Maori: rāhui, tapu (mi)
• Persian: ممنوعه‏‎ (fa), ممنوع‏‎ (fa) (memnu)
• Polish: zabroniony (pl) m, zakazany (pl) m, wzbroniony m
• Portuguese: proibido (pt)
• Romanian: interzis (ro), nepermis m
• Russian: запрещённый (ru) (zapreščónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: забрањен m

  Latin: zabranjen (sh) m

• Spanish: prohibido (es) m
• Swedish: förbjuden (sv)
• Tagalog: ahat
• Turkish: yasak (tr), kadağa (tr)
• Urdu: منع‏‎ (manā)
• West Frisian: ferbean

Verb

forbidden

1. past participle of forbid