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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Old English bannan

Verb

Infinitive to ban

Third person singular bans

Simple past banned

Past participle banned

Present participle banning

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

  1. To forbid.
    Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

Synonyms

Translations
forbid
  • Chinese: 禁止 (jìn zhǐ)
  • Finnish: kieltää fi(fi)
  • French: interdire fr(fr), proscrire fr(fr)
  • Greek: απαγορεύω el(el)
  • Hungarian: tilt hu(hu), kitilt hu(hu)
  • Indonesian: cekal
  • Italian: espellere it(it), vietare it(it), censurare it(it)
  • Romanian: interzice ro(ro)
  • Russian: запрещать ru(ru) (zapr'eš'át') (impf.), запретить ru(ru) (zapr'etít') (pf.); банить ru(ru) (bánit') (impf.), забанить ru(ru) (zabánit') (pf.) internet slang
  • Slovene: prepovedati sl(sl)
  • Spanish: prohibir es(es)
  • Swedish: banna sv(sv)
  • Telugu: నిషేధించు (nishaedhiMchu)

Noun

Singular ban

Plural bans

ban (plural bans)

  1. prohibition

Related terms

Translations
prohibition
  • Russian: запрет ru(ru) (zapr'ét) m., запрещение ru(ru) (zapr'eš'énije) n., бан ru(ru) (ban) m. internet slang
  • Telugu: నిషేధము (nishaedhamu)

See also

Etymology 2

From Romanian

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Noun

Singular ban

Plural bani

ban (plural bani)

  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu
  2. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу

Etymology 3

From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.

Noun

Singular ban

Plural bans

ban (plural bans)

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

Derived terms

Synonyms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch band (“‘band, connection, tire/tyre’”)

Noun

ban

  1. tyre / tire

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

ban

  1. Genitive plural of bean 'woman'

Japanese

Noun

ban (hiragana ばん)

  1. 晩: evening
  2. 番: guard
  3. 判: size
  4. 盤: board, block, disc

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

ban

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, bān, bǎn, or bàn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Noun

ban (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. death

Verb

ban (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. To die.
  2. First-person singular realis mood form of ban; I died; I have died.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ban (See Appendix:Mapudungun conjugation.)
Infinitive ban
Root ba-
Tense particles (See particles) -a- (future tense)
-pe- (past tense)
-fu- (distant past tense)
person singular dual plural
first second third first second third first second third
Realis mood iñce eymi fey iñciw eymu feygu iñciñ eymvn feygvn
ban baymi bay bayu baymu baygu bayiñ baymvn baygvn
Conditional mood iñce eymi fey iñciw eymu feygu iñciñ eymvn feygvn
bali balimi bale baliyu balimu bale egu baliyiñ balimvn bale egvn
Volitive mood iñce eymi fey iñciw eymu feygu iñciñ eymvn feygvn
baci bage bape bayu bamu bape egu bayiñ bamvn bape egvn

O'odham

Noun

ban

  1. coyote

Old English

Etymology

From Germanic *baina-. Cognate with Old Frisian bēn, Old Saxon bēn (Dutch been (“‘bone, leg’”)), Old High German bein (German Bein (“‘leg’”)), Old Norse bein (Icelandic bein (“‘bone’”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

bān n. (plural bān)

  1. bone; a bone

Romanian

Noun

ban m. (plural bani)

  1. money; coin

Declension

declension of ban
singular plural
gender m. indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
Nominative/Accusative un ban banul nişte bani banii
Genitive/Dative unui ban banului unor bani banilor
Vocative — — — —

Usage notes

Usually used in the plural form, bani

Volapük

Etymology

French bain

Noun

ban

  1. bath

1

Welsh

Noun

ban m.

  1. peak

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
ban fan man unchanged

 

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