forbid

Etymology
From, from , from , from +. Equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to.

Verb

 * 1)  To disallow; to proscribe.
 * 2)  To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
 * 3)  To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
 * 4)  To accurse; to blast.
 * 5)  To defy; to challenge.
 * 1)  To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
 * 2)  To accurse; to blast.
 * 3)  To defy; to challenge.
 * 1)  To accurse; to blast.
 * 2)  To defy; to challenge.
 * 1)  To defy; to challenge.

Usage notes

 * Especially when talking about a person, the expression is not allowed to is much more common than the very formal is forbidden to/is forbidden from.
 * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive or the gerund (-ing) when the person is mentioned from whom something is forbidden, and it takes the gerund (-ing) when such a person is not mentioned. See Appendix:English catenative verbs. Examples:
 * The management forbids employees from smoking/to smoke in the office. (Active; those subject to prohibition are identified)
 * Employees are forbidden from smoking/to smoke in the office. (Passive; those subject to prohibition are identified)
 * The management forbids smoking in the office. (Active; those subject to prohibition are not identified)
 * Smoking in the office is forbidden. (Passive; those subject to prohibition are not identified)

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:prohibit
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 * See also Thesaurus:prohibit
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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حَرَّمَ, حَظَرَ,
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: negar
 * Azerbaijani: qadağan etmək, yasaq etmək, yasaqlamaq
 * Basque: debekatu, uko egin
 * Belarusian: забараня́ць, забарані́ць
 * Bengali: নিষেধ করা
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: difen
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , niet toestaan
 * Esperanto: malpermesi
 * Estonian: keelama, keelustama
 * Faroese: banna
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: neâ
 * Galician: banir, enfensar, devedar, coutar,, , entredicir,
 * Georgian: აკრძალვა
 * German:, , , ,
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मना करना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, melarang
 * Irish: éar, coisc (ar)
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:, , , , , ,
 * Kazakh: рұқсат етпеу, тыйым салу
 * Khmer:, , , ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: тыгоу, тыюу салуу
 * Lao: ຫ້າມ, ປາມ, ສງວນ
 * Latin: vetō,, interdicō, abnegō, , denegō
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, neleisti
 * Luxembourgish: verbidden
 * Macedonian: забранува, забрани
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: ziia
 * Norman: d'fendre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forby,
 * Nynorsk: forby, forbyde, forbyda, ,
 * Old English: forbēodan
 * Persian: منع کردن, غیر مجاز کردن
 * Polish:, , , , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: snegar
 * Russian:, , , , не разреша́ть, не разреши́ть
 * Scottish Gaelic: diùlt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: забрањи́вати, забра́нити
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: zakazovať, zakázať
 * Slovene: prepovedovati,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tajik:, роҳ надодан
 * Tetum: bandu
 * Thai: ,
 * Tok Pisin: tambuim
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: gadagan etmek
 * Ukrainian: забороня́ти, заборони́ти
 * Uzbek: man qilmoq
 * Venetian: negar
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * West Coast Bajau: ngelarang
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרווערן