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; specifically disallowed.

   Synonyms: prohibited, verboten

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 415–420, page 83:

     Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

   • 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'.

See also

• taboo

Translations

not allowed

• Arabic: مَمْنُوع‎‎ (mamnūʿ)
• Armenian: արգելված (hy) (argelvac)
• Azerbaijani: qadağan
• Belarusian: забаро́нены (zabarónjeny)
• 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)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀπόρρητος (apórrhētos)

• Hebrew: אסור‎‎ (he) (asur)
• Hindi: मना (hi) (manā)
• Hungarian: tilos (hu)
• Ido: interdiktita
• Indonesian: dilarang (id)
• Irish: coiscthe, crosta, faoi chosc, toirmiscthe

• 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

• Slovak: zakázaný
• Slovene: prepovedan (sl)
• Spanish: prohibido (es) m
• Swedish: förbjuden (sv)
• Tagalog: ahat
• Thai: ต้องห้าม, หวงห้าม (th)
• Turkish: yasak (tr), kadağa (tr)
• Ukrainian: заборо́нений (zaborónenyj)
• Urdu: منع‎‎ (manā)
• West Frisian: ferbean

Verb

forbidden

1. past participle of forbid