ban

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Translingual

Symbol

ban

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Balinese.

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /bæn/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /bæːn/
(æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [bɛən], [beən]
Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

ban (third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned)

(transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
(transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
(transitive) To curse; to execrate.
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon:
(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
(ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

Synonyms

forbid
prohibit
disallow

Antonyms

allow
permit

Derived terms

forban
shadowban

Translations

Noun

ban (plural bans)

Prohibition.
A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
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.
- 1591, published 1847, Henry Unton, Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton, knt., Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV. King of France, in the years MDXCI. and MDXCII., page 54:
  […] 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; […]
(obsolete) A curse or anathema.
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.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Romanian ban of uncertain origin, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian bân.

Noun

ban (plural bani)

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.

Noun

ban (plural bans)

A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

Synonyms

dit, hartley

Derived terms

deciban

Etymology 4

From South Slavic (compare Serbo-Croatian bȃn), from Proto-Slavic *banъ; see there for more.

Noun

ban (plural bans)

A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

Related terms

banat, banate, Banat

Translations

Anagrams

-nab, -nab-, ABN, BNA, NAB, NBA, nab, nab-

Bambara

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bã˦]

Verb

ban

to finish

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈban]

Etymology 1

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

ban (a public proclamation or edict)

Derived terms

bandejar

Etymology 2

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

ban (a title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century)

Derived terms

banat

Chibcha

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /βan/

Noun

ban

shame, sorrow, outrage

References

Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1991. El vocabulario mosco de 1612. En estudios de Lingüística Chibcha. Programa de investigación del departamento de lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Serie Anual Tomo X San José (Costa Rica). Universidad de Costa Rica.
Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico Gramática de Lugo. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Chinese

Alternative forms

band

Etymology

From English ban.

Pronunciation

Verb

ban

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) to ban
(Hong Kong Cantonese) to reject (ideas, proposals, suggestions, etc.)
ban橋／ban桥 [Cantonese] ― ben¹ kiu^4-2 [Jyutping] ― to reject an idea

Synonyms

(to reject): foul

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ban. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑn/
Hyphenation: ban
Rhymes: -ɑn

Noun

ban m (plural bannen)

excommunication, denunciation, shunning
anathema which is cast upon one who is excommunicated
magic spell
(historical) legal or feudal domain
(historical) public declaration
(archaic) exile

Derived terms

balling
banneling
huwelijksban

Related terms

banaal

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English ban.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɛn/
Hyphenation: ban
Rhymes: -ɛn
Homophone: ben

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

a revocation of permission to access or participate
Synonym: toegangsverbod

Usage notes

Mostly common within internet communities.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑn/

Verb

ban

inflection of bannen:
1. first-person singular present indicative
2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
3. imperative

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɛn/

Verb

ban

inflection of bannen:
1. first-person singular present indicative
2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
3. imperative

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑ̃/
Homophones: banc, bancs, bans

Etymology 1

From Old French ban, from Frankish *ban.

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

(dated) public declaration
(dated) announcement of a marriage; banns
(East of France, Belgium) territory

Derived terms

arrière-ban
en rupture de ban
mettre au ban
bannière
banal
banir
bannissement
banlieue
abandon
abandonner
abandonné
forban

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȃn. See English ban.

Noun

ban m (plural bans)

ban (nobleman)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bã/

Verb

ban

give

Synonyms

Hokkien

Iberian

Etymology

Often compared to Basque bat and Proto-Basque *bade (“one, some”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ban]

Numeral

ban

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch band, from Middle Dutch bant.

The sense “band” is a semantic loan from English band.

Alternative forms

band (1901–1947, colloquial)

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian)
- IPA^(key): /ˈban/ [ˈban]
  - Rhymes: -an
- IPA^(key): (especially of sense 5) /ˈbɛn/ [ˈbɛn]
  - Rhymes: -ɛn
Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban (plural ban-ban)

tyre, tire
Synonym: tayar (Standard Malay)
tape
Synonym: pita
belt
Synonyms: ikat pinggang, sabuk
(physics) band (a part of the electromagnetic spectrum)
Synonym: pita
band (group of musicians)

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch baan, from Middle Dutch bāne, from Old Dutch *bana, from Proto-Germanic *banō.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈban/ [ˈban]
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban (plural ban-ban)

(uncommon) road, way, path
Synonyms: jalan, jalur
(uncommon) a track, lane
Synonym: lintasan
(sports, ball games) court, field (place for playing sports or games, in particular non-team ball games)

Etymology 3

From English ban.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛn/ [ˈbɛn]
Rhymes: -ɛn
Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban

(Internet slang) a ban
Synonym: blok

Verb

ban

(Internet slang) to ban
Synonym: blokir

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bˠan̪ˠ/, /bˠanˠ/

Noun

ban f pl

genitive plural of bean

Mutation

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ban”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

ban

Rōmaji transcription of ばん
Rōmaji transcription of バン

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bahn. Compare Greater Polish bana and Silesian bana.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈban/
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban m inan

train
Synonyms: cuch, pòcąg

Declension

Derived terms

Maguindanao

Noun

ban

sneeze

Mandarin

Romanization

ban

Nonstandard spelling of bān.
Nonstandard spelling of bǎn.
Nonstandard spelling of bàn.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Noun

ban (Raguileo spelling)

death

Verb

ban (Raguileo spelling)

To die.
first-person singular realis form of ban; I died; I have died.

Conjugation

References

Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Maranao

Verb

ban

to sneeze

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ban

Alternative form of bane

Etymology 2

Noun

ban

(Early Middle English) Alternative form of bon

North Frisian

Verb

ban

first-person singular present of weese

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian (bâm).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑːn/

Noun

ban ?

roof

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ban

imperative of bane (Etymology 3)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Noun

ban n

(dialectal) alternative form of barn (“child”)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bain, Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Cognate with Old Frisian bēn (West Frisian bien), Old Saxon bēn (Low German been, bein), Dutch been (“bone, leg”), Old High German bein (German Bein (“leg”)), Old Norse bein (Icelandic bein (“bone”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑːn/

Noun

bān n (nominative plural bān)

bone
ivory

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

bānhūs
bānlēas
hryċġbān
sċinbān

Descendants

Middle English: bon, ban, bane, bone, boon
- English: bone
- Geordie English: byen
- Scots: bane, bain, bean, been
- Yola: bane

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ban/

Noun

ban

genitive dual/plural of ben

Verb

ban

first-person plural imperative of is

Alternative forms

baán

Mutation

O'odham

Etymology

Cognate with Southeastern Tepehuan bhan, Northern Tepehuan bánai.

Noun

ban (plural ba꞉ban)

coyote

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese vambora.

Interjection

ban

let’s go

Phalura

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Urdu بَنْد (band), from Persian (band).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ban/

Adjective

ban (invariable, Perso-Arabic spelling بن)

closed
blocked, stopped

Alternative forms

band

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ban”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[4], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈban/
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: ban

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Romanian ban.

Noun

ban m animal

ban (subdivision of currency)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English ban, from Middle English bannen (“to summon; to bannish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”) 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”).

Noun

ban m animal

(Internet) ban

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ban, from Late Proto-Slavic *banъ, from Turkic.

Noun

ban m pers

ban (title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ban.

Pronunciation

Noun

ban

(Internet slang) ban (block from interacting in an internet community)

Romanian

Alternative forms

бан (ban) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Medieval Latin *bannus (“communication”), perhaps through a German intermediate. Other theories derive the word from Proto-Slavic *banъ (“master, lord”) (via Serbo-Croatian or Hungarian). Ultimate Mongolian origin (баян (bajan, “rich lord; plutocrat”)) has also been proposed.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ban/
Rhymes: -an

Noun

ban m (plural bani)

money; coin
ban (unit of currency, one hundredth of a leu)

Usage notes

Usually used in the plural form, bani

Declension

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Late Proto-Slavic *banъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bâːn/
Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

bȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑н)

ban (title)

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 盤 / 盘 (pôaⁿ, “tray, plate, dish”).

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈban/ [ˈban̪]
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: ban

Noun

ban (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔)

(rare) wheel
Synonyms: gulong, ruweda

Tarifit

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic بان (bān).

Pronunciation

Verb

ban (Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴰⵏ)

(intransitive) to appear, to emerge

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

biyyen (“to show”)
lbiyyina (“evidence”)

Tày

Etymology

Cognate with Lao ບານ (bān), Thai บาน (baan).

Pronunciation

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːn˧˥]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːn˦]

Adjective

ban (班)

well-developed; husky
slao ban ― busty girl

bâư ban ― leaf reaching the bánh tẻ stage

Derived terms

References

Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[5][6] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːn˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 班.

Noun

ban

(historical) branch of administration in the feudal court (of which there are two types: the civil administrators and the martial office holders)
group (of people doing the same work); band; board; squad; committee
shift; work period
(only in compounds) time period; section of the day
Synonym: buổi

ban trưa ― noon
(dated) (college-level) subject; (academic) department

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cây, hoa) ban

orchid tree (Bauhinia variegata)

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 斑.

Noun

ban

(medicine) rash

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French balle. Related to banh; see there for more details.

Noun

ban

(Central Vietnam) ball made from rubber

Etymology 5

Noun

ban

(colloquial) Alternative form of pan

Etymology 6

Sino-Vietnamese word from 頒.

Verb

ban

(archaic) to confer on; to bestow
(archaic) to announce; to herald; to proclaim

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French bain.

Noun

ban (nominative plural bans)

bath

Declension

Derived terms

banön

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bann, from Proto-Brythonic *bann, from Proto-Celtic *bandā.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ban/
Rhymes: -an

Noun

ban m (plural bannau or bannoedd)

peak, summit
point, principle
Synonyms: pwnc, testun

Derived terms

Pen y Fan
Bannau Brycheiniog (“Brecon Beacons”)

Mutation

Yagara

Adjective

ban

dirty
nasty
very angry

References

State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.

Zazaki

Noun

ban

dome, cupola
room

Zou

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ban˧˩/

Noun

bàn

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

ban

ban

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

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Antonyms

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Translations

Noun

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Etymology 2

Noun

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Etymology 3

Noun

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Etymology 4

Noun

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

Bambara

Pronunciation

Verb

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Chibcha

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Synonyms

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Verb

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Verb

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Haitian Creole

Etymology

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