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English
Etymology
From Middle English prohibiten, from Latin prohibeō (“I fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).
Pronunciation
Verb
prohibit (third-person singular simple present prohibits, present participle prohibiting, simple past and past participle prohibited)
- (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
- Synonyms: ban, disallow, forbid, proscribe
- Antonyms: allow, authorize, permit
The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
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Translations
to proscribe officially
- Arabic: مَنَعَ (ar) (manaʕa)
- Belarusian: забараня́ць impf (zabaranjácʹ), забарані́ць pf (zabaranícʹ)
- Bulgarian: забранявам (bg) (zabranjavam)
- Catalan: prohibir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 禁止 (zh) (jìnzhǐ), 阻止 (zh) (zǔzhǐ)
- Cornish: difen
- Czech: zakazovat (cs) impf, zakázat (cs) pf
- Dutch: verbieden (nl)
- Esperanto: malpermesi
- Fataluku: pacu
- Finnish: kieltää (fi)
- French: interdire (fr), prohiber (fr)
- Galician: prohibir (gl), banir, enfensar, devedar, coutar, toller (gl), privar (gl), entredicir
- German: verbieten (de)
- Greek: απαγορεύω (el) (apagorévo)
- Hungarian: megtilt (hu), tilt (hu)
- Irish: urghair (literary), coisc
- Italian: proibire (it), impedire (it), ostacolare (it), vietare (it)
- Japanese: 禁じる (ja) (kinjiru), 禁止する (ja) (kinshi suru)
- Korean: 금하다 (ko) (geumhada)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: prohibeō (la), interdīcō, vetō
- Latvian: aizliegt (lv)
- Luxembourgish: verbidden
- Makasae: bandu
- Malayalam: നിരോധിക്കുക (ml) (nirōdhikkuka), വിലക്കുക (ml) (vilakkuka)
- Maori: rāhui, whakamanakore
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forby
- Nynorsk: forby, forbyde
- Old English: forbēodan
- Polish: zakazywać (pl) impf, zakazać (pl) pf
- Portuguese: proibir (pt)
- Quechua: amatay
- Romanian: interzice (ro)
- Russian: запреща́ть (ru) impf (zapreščátʹ), запрети́ть (ru) pf (zapretítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: забрањи́вати impf, забра́нити pf
- Roman: zabranjívati (sh) impf, zabrániti (sh) pf
- Spanish: prohibir (es)
- Swedish: förbjuda (sv)
- Tetum: bandu
- Thai: ห้าม (th) (hâam)
- Ukrainian: забороня́ти impf (zaboronjáty), заборони́ти pf (zaboronýty)
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See also
Further reading
- “prohibit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prohibit”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
prohibit (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)
- forbidden, outlawed
Participle
prohibit (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)
- past participle of prohibir
Romanian
Etymology
Past participle of prohibi.
Adjective
prohibit m or n (feminine singular prohibită, masculine plural prohibiți, feminine and neuter plural prohibite)
- prohibited
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