ban
See also: Ban and Appendix:Variations of "ban"
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English bannen, from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.
VerbEdit
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
- (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Byron to this entry?)
- 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
- 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.
- 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- 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.
- Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
- (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
forbid
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NounEdit
ban (plural bans)
- prohibition
- Milton
- under ban to touch
- Milton
- A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
- Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
- The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
- He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
- The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
- France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
- The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.
- The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
- (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
- Shakespeare
- Hecate's ban
- Shakespeare
- 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.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
prohibition
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See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Romanian ban of uncertain origin, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian bân.
NounEdit
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
TranslationsEdit
a subdivision of currency
Etymology 3Edit
From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.
NounEdit
ban (plural bans)
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 4Edit
From South Slavic ban (compare Serbo-Croatian bȃn), from Proto-Slavic *banъ; see there for more.
NounEdit
ban (plural bans)
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe
AnagramsEdit
BambaraEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ban
- to finish
ReferencesEdit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ban m (plural bannen)
- excommunication, denunciation
- anathema which is cast upon one who is excommunicated
- magic spell
- (archaic) exile
VerbEdit
ban
Etymology 2Edit
Likely borrowed from the English noun ban and verb banning.
NounEdit
ban m (plural bans)
- a revocation of permission to access or participate
- Synonym: toegangsverbod
- De forumgebruiker die zich heeft misdragen heeft een ban gekregen.
- The forum user that misbehaved has been given a ban.
VerbEdit
ban
- to revoke permission to access or participate
- Synonyms: eruit trappen, eruit gooien, de toegang verbieden
- De spammende gebruikers zullen we bannen.
- We will ban the spamming users.
Usage notesEdit
Mostly common within internet communities. Although a ban never needs to be paid for, ban may be used with gratis (gratis ban) similar to English free ban to express gratitude for giving the ban.
Ik heb die klootzak een gratis ban gegeven.
- I gave that asshole a free ban.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French ban, from Frankish *ban.
NounEdit
ban m (plural bans)
- (dated) public declaration
- (dated) announcement of a marriage
- (East of France, Belgium) territory
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȃn. See English ban.
NounEdit
ban m (plural bans)
- ban (nobleman)
Further readingEdit
- “ban” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Haitian CreoleEdit
IberianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
ban
- A particle interpreted as the numeral 'one' by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer, and compared to Basque bat (“one”).
Further readingEdit
- Eduardo Orduña [Aznar], Los numerales ibéricos y el protovasco
- Joan Ferrer i Jané, El sistema de numerales ibérico: avances en su conocimiento
IndonesianEdit
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ban f pl
MutationEdit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| ban | bhan | mban |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
ReferencesEdit
- "ban" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
JapaneseEdit
KurdishEdit
MaguindanaoEdit
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
ban
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
MapudungunEdit
NounEdit
ban (using Raguileo Alphabet)
VerbEdit
ban (using Raguileo Alphabet)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of ban (See Appendix:Mapudungun conjugation.)
| Infinitive | ban | ||||||||
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| 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 | |
ReferencesEdit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English bana.
NounEdit
ban
- Alternative form of bane
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English bān.
NounEdit
ban
- Alternative form of bon
Norwegian BokmålEdit
O'odhamEdit
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From 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”)).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bān n (nominative plural bān)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Old IrishEdit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ban m anim
- ban (a subdivision of currency)
DeclensionEdit
declension of ban
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
ban m anim
- ban (on the Internet)
DeclensionEdit
declension of ban
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ban, from Turkish bajan.
NounEdit
ban m pers
- ban (title)
DeclensionEdit
declension of ban
Further readingEdit
- ban in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unknown.
NounEdit
ban m (plural bani)
Usage notesEdit
Usually used in the plural form, bani
DeclensionEdit
declension of ban
See alsoEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Proto-Slavic *banъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑н)
- ban (title)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ban
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 班.
NounEdit
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
- (dated) (college-level) subject; (academic) department
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 斑.
NounEdit
ban
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
ban
Etymology 5Edit
NounEdit
ban
- (colloquial) Alternative form of pan
Etymology 6Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 頒.
VerbEdit
ban
VolapükEdit
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Brythonic *bann, from Proto-Celtic *bandā.
NounEdit
ban m (plural bannau or bannoedd)
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| ban | fan | man | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||