verboten
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/, /fə-/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/, /ˌvəɹ-/, [-ɾ(ə)n]
- Rhymes: -əʊtən
- Hyphenation: ver‧bot‧en
Adjective[edit]
verboten (not comparable)
- (often emphatic or humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.
- 1916, John Buchan, “Further Adventures of the Same”, in Greenmantle, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 63:
- I read on a notice that one was forbidden to smoke, so to show my ignorance of German I pulled out my pipe. Stumm raised his head, saw what I was doing, and gruffly bade me put it away, as if he were an old lady that disliked the smell of tobacco. In half an hour I got very bored, for I had nothing to read and my pipe was verboten.
- 2015 February 27, Laura Kipnis, “Sexual paranoia strikes academe”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education[1], Washington, D.C.: Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-22:
- Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).
- 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-17:
- Or was it because he [Mark Zuckerberg] has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?
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References[edit]
- ^ “verboten, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “verboten, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
verboten
Adjective[edit]
verboten (strong nominative masculine singular verbotener, not comparable)
- forbidden, prohibited, banned
- Rauchen verboten - Do not smoke!
- 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 120:
- Für die Massen ist die Nation der Inbegriff alles Mystischen, Imponderabilen, schlechthin Unbegreiflichen – auf diesem Gebiet ist alles erlaubt und kann alles verboten sein, hier wachsen die großen Männer, deren Größe an der Kleinheit der Umstehenden gemessen wird.
- For the masses the nation is the embodiment of all that is mystical, imponderable, plainly incomprehensible – in this area everything is allowed and everything can be forbidden, here the great men grow, whose greatness is measured against the smallness of the bystanders.
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Positive forms of verboten (uncomparable)
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