prohibition

See also: Prohibition

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibitiō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹoʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: pro‧hi‧bi‧tion

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Noun

prohibition (countable and uncountable, plural prohibitions)

1. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
2. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
3. A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.

Synonyms

• forbode

Antonyms

• permission

Related terms

• prohibit

Translations

act of prohibiting

• Albanian: ndalim (sq) m
• Arabic: حَظْر‎ m (ḥaẓr), مَنْع‎ (ar) m (manʿ)
• Armenian: արգելք (hy) (argelkʿ)
• Azerbaijani: yasaq, qadağan (az)
• Belarusian: забаро́на f (zabaróna)
• Bulgarian: забра́на (bg) f (zabrána), запреще́ние (bg) n (zaprešténie)
• Catalan: prohibició (ca) f, interdicció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁止 (zh) (jìnzhǐ)

• Danish: forbud n
• Dutch: verbod (nl) n
• Estonian: keeld
• Finnish: kielto (fi)
• French: prohibition (fr) f, interdiction (fr) f
• Georgian: აკრძალვა (aḳrʒalva)
• Greek: απαγόρευση (el) f (apagórefsi)
• Hindi: निषेध (hi) m (niṣedh), मनाही (hi) f (manāhī)
• Hungarian: tiltás (hu), megtiltás, tilalom (hu)
• Irish: crosadh m
• Japanese: (act of prohibiting) 禁止 (ja) (きんし, kinshi); (legal action) 差し止め (さしとめ, sashitome)
• Kazakh: тыйым (tıyım)
• Khmer: បំរាម (bɑmraam)
• Korean: 금지 (ko) (geumji) (禁止 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: тыюу (ky) (tıyuu)
• Latin: vetitum n, interdictum n
• Latvian: aizliegums m
• Lithuanian: uždraudimas m
• Macedonian: забрана f (zabrana)
• Malay: larangan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forbud (no) n

• Oromo: dhowwaa
• Persian: منع‎ (fa) (man')
• Plautdietsch: Baun m
• Portuguese: proibição (pt) f
• Romanian: interdicție (ro) f
• Russian: запре́т (ru) m (zaprét), запреще́ние (ru) n (zapreščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̑брана f

  Roman: zȃbrana (sh) f

• Slovene: prepoved (sl) f
• Spanish: prohibición (es) f
• Swedish: förbud (sv) n
• Tajik: манъ (tg) (manʾ)
• Thai: การห้าม (th) (gaan-hâam), ข้อห้าม (kɔ̂ɔ-hâam)
• Turkish: yasak (tr)
• Ukrainian: заборо́на f (zaboróna)
• Uzbek: taqiq (uz), man (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự cấm (vi), cấm chỉ (vi)
• Zazaki: men (diq) m, tomet m

law that prohibits something

• Albanian: ndalim (sq) m
• Arabic: حَظْر‎ m (ḥaẓr)
• Belarusian: забаро́на f (zabaróna)
• Bulgarian: забра́на (bg) f (zabrána), запреще́ние (bg) n (zaprešténie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁令 (zh) (jìnlìng), 禁止 (zh) (jìnzhǐ)

• Czech: zákaz (cs) m, prohibice (cs) f
• Danish: forbud n
• Dutch: verbod (nl) n
• Finnish: kieltolaki (fi)
• French: interdiction (fr) f, prohibition (fr) f
• German: Verbot (de) n
• Greek: ποτοαπαγόρευση (el) f (potoapagórefsi)
• Hungarian: szesztilalom, alkoholtilalom (hu), tilalom (hu)
• Icelandic: bannár
• Japanese: 禁止 (ja) (きんし, kinshi), 禁止法 (きんしほう, kinshihō); (obsolete) 禁制 (ja) (きんせい, kinsei)
• Korean: 금지 (ko) (geumji) (禁止 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قەدەغە‎ (ku) (qedeẍe)

• Latin: interdictum n
• Maori: poropeihana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forbud (no) n, (of alcohol) alkoholforbud n

• Polish: zakaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: proibição (pt) f
• Russian: запре́т (ru) m (zaprét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̑брана f

  Roman: zȃbrana (sh) f

• Slovak: zákaz m
• Slovene: prepoved (sl) f
• Spanish: prohibición (es) f
• Swedish: förbud (sv) n
• Ukrainian: заборо́на f (zaboróna)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} prohibitie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} malpermeso

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} قەدەغە‎ (ku) (qedeẍe)

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French

Etymology

First attested in Old French, borrowed from Latin prohibitiō

Pronunciation

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Noun

prohibition f (plural prohibitions)

1. prohibition
   1. (specifically) prohibition of alcohol

Related terms

• prohiber

Further reading

• “prohibition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).