forbidden

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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

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
• German: verboten (de)
• Hebrew: אסור ‎(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)
• Persian: ممنوعه (fa), ممنوع (fa) ‎(memnu)
• Polish: zabroniony 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

Related terms

• taboo

Verb

forbidden

1. past participle of forbid