prohibit

English

Etymology

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From Middle English [Term?], from Latin prohibeo (“I fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈhɪbɪt/, /pɹəʊˈhɪbɪt/
• IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈhɪbɪt/, /pɹəˈhɪbət/

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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 officially; to make illegal or illicit.
   • 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:

     In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

   The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.

   Synonyms: ban, disallow, forbid

   Antonyms: allow, authorize

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:prohibit

Related terms

• prohibition
• prohibitive

 

Translations

to proscribe officially

• Arabic: مَنَعَ (ar) (manaʕa)
• Belarusian: забараня́ць impf (zabaranjácʹ), забарані́ць pf (zabaranícʹ)
• Catalan: prohibir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁止 (zh) (jìnzhǐ), 阻止 (zh) (zǔzhǐ)

• Czech: zakazovat (cs) impf, zakázat (cs) pf
• Dutch: verbieden (nl)
• Finnish: kieltää (fi)
• French: interdire (fr), prohiber (fr)
• Galician: prohibir (gl), banir, enfensar, devedar, coutar, toller (gl), privar, entredicir
• German: verbieten (de)
• Greek: απαγορεύω (el) (apagorévo)
• Hungarian: megtilt (hu), tilt (hu)
• Irish: urghair (literary)
• Italian: proibire (it)
• Japanese: 禁じる (kinjiru), 禁止する (ja) (kinshi suru)
• Korean: 금하다 (ko) (geumhada)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: prohibeō (la), interdīcō, vetō
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• Latvian: aizliegt
• Luxembourgish: verbidden
• Maori: rāhui, whakamanakore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forby

  Nynorsk: forby, forbyde

• Polish: zakazywać (pl) impf, zakazać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: proibir (pt)
• Quechua: amatay
• Romanian: interzice (ro)
• Russian: запреща́ть (ru) impf (zapreščátʹ), запрети́ть (ru) pf (zapretítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: забрањи́вати impf, забра́нити pf

  Roman: zabranjívati (sh) impf, zabrániti (sh) pf

• Spanish: prohibir (es)
• Swedish: förbjuda (sv)
• Thai: ห้าม (th) (hâam)
• Ukrainian: забороня́ти impf (zaboronjáty), заборони́ти pf (zaboronýty)

See also

• interdict
• debar
• prevent
• hinder

Further reading

• “prohibit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “prohibit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾu.iˈβit]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [pɾo.iˈbit]
• Rhymes: -it

Adjective

prohibit (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)

1. forbidden, outlawed

Verb

prohibit (feminine prohibi, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibis)