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'.

Translations

not allowed

• Arabic: ممنوع (mamnuu`)
• Bulgarian: забранен (bg) (zabranen)
• Catalan: prohibit m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: zakázaný
• Danish: forbudt
• Dutch: verboden (nl)
• Esperanto: malpermesa; malpermesita
• Finnish: kielletty (fi)
• French: interdit (fr)
• German: verboten (de)
• Hungarian: tilos (hu)
• Indonesian: dilarang (id)
• Italian: vietato (it), proibito (it)

• Japanese: 禁じられた (kinjirareta), 禁止の (kinshi-no)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: قه‌ده‌غه‌ (ku) (qadagha)

• Persian: ممنوعه (fa)
• Polish: zabroniony m, zakazany (pl) m, wzbroniony m
• Portuguese: proibido (pt)
• Romanian: interzis (ro)
• Russian: запрещённый (ru) (zapreščónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: забрањен m

  Latin: zabranjen m

• Spanish: prohibido (es) m
• Turkish: yasak (tr)
• West Frisian: ferbean

Related terms

• taboo

Verb

forbidden

1. Past participle of forbid