ban
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”).
Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Vedic Sanskrit भनति (bhánati), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.
Inflected forms:
form: bans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: banned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned
Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday banning the sale at grocery checkouts of all plastic bags, regardless of thickness.
gloss: To summon; to call out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To curse; to execrate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.
gloss: To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: :“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”
gloss: A prohibition.
pos: noun
examples: That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,
Much more to taste it under ban to touch
California has been on the forefront of plastic bag bans. In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores.
The community also has faced political setbacks in recent years as states passed a flurry of laws, including health care bans like the one at issue in the case and measures that prohibit trans students from participating on sports teams that are consistent with their gender identity.
gloss: A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
pos: noun
examples: Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.
gloss: The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
pos: noun
examples: […] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]
[…] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King […]
France was at such a Pinch for Men, […] that they call’d their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long disus’ed, and in a Manner antiquated.
The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military service in subsequent ages; but with more of ostentation than real efficiency.
The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled “convoking the ban”—“convoquer le ban.”
gloss: A curse or anathema.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected
gloss: A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
pos: noun
Related words: banns
Derived words: ban overtime
forban
shadowban
antiban
argatroban
ban hammer
ban-hound
bannable
banner
ban-the-bomber
banworthy
black ban
blanket ban
bonk ban
centiban
exit ban
fissban
ghostban
green ban
hellban
instaban
kickban
overtime ban
permaban
preban
reban
stealthban
total fire ban
unban
-xaban
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ndalim
lang: Arabic
word: حَظْر
roman: ḥaẓr
lang: Arabic
word: مَنْع
roman: manʕ
lang: Bashkir
word: тыйыу
roman: tıyıw
lang: Belarusian
word: забаро́на
roman: zabaróna
lang: Bulgarian
word: забра́на
roman: zabrána
lang: Bulgarian
word: запреще́ние
roman: zaprešténie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 禁止
roman: jìnzhǐ
lang: Czech
word: zákaz
lang: Danish
word: forbud
lang: Dutch
word: verbod
lang: Esperanto
word: malpermeso
lang: Finnish
word: kielto
lang: Finnish
word: esto
lang: Finnish
word: banni
lang: Finnish
word: bänni
lang: Finnish
word: banaani
lang: French
word: interdiction
lang: French
word: prohibition
lang: West-Frisian
word: ferbod
lang: Georgian
word: აკრძალვა
roman: aḳrʒalva
lang: German
word: Verbot
lang: Greek
word: απαγόρευση
roman: apagórefsi
lang: Hindi
word: बहिष्कार
roman: bahiṣkār
lang: Hungarian
word: tilalom
lang: Icelandic
word: bann
lang: Ilocano
word: parit
lang: Ingrian
word: keelto
lang: Italian
word: proibizione
lang: Italian
word: divieto
lang: Japanese
word: 禁止
roman: kinshi
lang: Khmer
word: បំរាម
roman: bɑmraam
lang: Korean
word: 금지
roman: geumji
lang: Latin
word: vetitum
lang: Lithuanian
word: draudimas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Verbuet
lang: Macedonian
word: забрана
roman: zabrana
lang: Malayalam
word: നിരോധനം
roman: nirōdhanaṁ
lang: Marathi
word: बंदी
roman: bandī
lang: Mongolian
word: хориг
roman: xorig
lang: Mongolian
word: цээр
roman: ceer
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forbud
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Baun
lang: Polish
word: zakaz
lang: Polish
word: ban (on the internet)
lang: Portuguese
word: proibição
lang: Romanian
word: interdicție
lang: Russian
word: запре́т
roman: zaprét
lang: Russian
word: запреще́ние
roman: zapreščénije
lang: Russian
word: бан
roman: ban
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: за̑брана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zȃbrana
lang: Slovak
word: zákaz
lang: Slovene
word: prepoved
lang: Spanish
word: vedamiento
lang: Spanish
word: baneo
lang: Swedish
word: förbud
lang: Tagalog
word: pagbabawal
lang: Telugu
word: నిషేధము
roman: niṣēdhamu
lang: Thai
word: การห้าม
roman: gaan-hâam
lang: Thai
word: ข้อห้าม
roman: kɔ̂ɔ-hâam
lang: Turkish
word: yasak
lang: Ukrainian
word: заборо́на
roman: zaboróna
lang: Vietnamese
word: sự cấm
lang: Vietnamese
word: cấm chỉ
lang: Zazaki
word: tomet
lang: Zazaki
word: men