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ban

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

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English

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Etymology 1

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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

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

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
  2. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  3. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
    • c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon:
      They will curse and ban [] even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.
  4. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
    • 1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon:
      To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned
    • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The 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.
    • 2024 September 23, Soumya Karlamangla, “California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday banning the sale at grocery checkouts of all plastic bags, regardless of thickness.
    Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
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Noun

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ban (plural bans)

  1. Prohibition.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,
      Much more to taste it under ban to touch
    • 2024 September 23, Soumya Karlamangla, “California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired”, in The New York Times[2]:
      California has been on the forefront of plastic bag bans. In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores.
  2. A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
    • 1641, John Rastell, translated by William Rastell, Termes de la Lay, 37b:
      Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.
  3. 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; []
    • 1671, John Crowne, Juliana, or, The princess of Poland a tragicomedy, as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's theatre, Act I, page 8:
      [] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King []
    • 1683, William Temple, chapter I, in Memoirs of what past in Christendom, from the War begun 1672, to the Peace concluded 1679:
      France was at such a Pinch for Men, [] that they call’d their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long disus’ed, and in a Manner antiquated.
    • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, chapter II, part II:
      The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military service in subsequent ages; but with more of ostentation than real efficiency.
    • 1874, Charles Boutell, chapter 7, in Arms And Armour In Antiquity And The Middle Ages, page 98:
      The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled “convoking the ban”—“convoquer le ban.”
  4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  5. 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.
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Etymology 2

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

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ban (plural bani)

  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
  2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
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Etymology 3

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From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.

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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.
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Etymology 4

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

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ban (plural bans)

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

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ban

  1. to finish

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Catalan

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ban m (plural bans)

  1. ban (a public proclamation or edict)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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ban m (plural bans)

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

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ban

  1. shame, sorrow, outrage

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  • 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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English ban.

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ban

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) to ban
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reject (ideas, proposals, suggestions, etc.)
    banban [Cantonese]  ―  ben1 kiu4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to reject an idea

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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

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ban m (plural bannen)

  1. excommunication, denunciation, shunning
  2. anathema which is cast upon one who is excommunicated
  3. magic spell
  4. (historical) legal or feudal domain
  5. (historical) public declaration
  6. (archaic) exile
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English ban.

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ban m (plural bans)

  1. 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.
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Mostly common within internet communities.

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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ban

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

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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ban

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

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old French ban, from Frankish *ban.

Noun

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ban m (plural bans)

  1. (dated) public declaration
  2. (dated) announcement of a marriage; banns
  3. (East of France, Belgium) territory
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȃn. See English ban.

Noun

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ban m (plural bans)

  1. ban (nobleman)

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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

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ban

  1. give

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Hokkien

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For pronunciation and definitions of ban – see (“the youngest”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Iberian

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Pronunciation

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Numeral

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ban

  1. A particle interpreted as the numeral 'one' by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer, and compared to Basque bat (one).

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  • Eduardo Orduña [Aznar], Los numerales ibéricos y el protovasco
  • Joan Ferrer i Jané, El sistema de numerales ibérico: avances en su conocimiento

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈban]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Hyphenation: ban

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ban

  1. tyre, tire.
    Synonym: tayar (Standard Malay)
  2. tape
    Synonym: pita
  3. belt
    Synonyms: ikat pinggang, sabuk
  4. (physics) band, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Synonym: pita
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Etymology 2

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

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  • IPA(key): [ˈban]
  • Hyphenation: ban

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ban

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

Etymology 3

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From English ban.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛn]
  • Hyphenation: ban

Noun

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ban

  1. (Internet slang) a ban
    Synonym: blok

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ban

  1. (Internet slang) to ban
    Synonym: blokir

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bˠan̪ˠ/, /bˠanˠ/

Noun

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ban f pl

  1. genitive plural of bean

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Mutated forms of ban
radical lenition eclipsis
ban bhan mban

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Japanese

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ban

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ばん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of バン

Kashubian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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ban m inan

  1. train
    Synonyms: cuch, pòcąg

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Further reading

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  • Sychta, Bernard (1976) “ban”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volume 7 (Suplement), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 6
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “pociąg”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[3]
  • ban”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Maguindanao

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Noun

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ban

  1. sneeze

Mandarin

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Romanization

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ban

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of bǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of bàn.

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  • 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

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Noun

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ban (Raguileo spelling)

  1. death

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ban (Raguileo spelling)

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

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References

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

Maranao

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ban

  1. to sneeze

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English bana.

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ban

  1. Alternative form of bane

Etymology 2

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From Old English bān.

Noun

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ban

  1. Alternative form of bon

North Frisian

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ban

  1. first-person singular present of weese

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Related to Persian بام (bâm).

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Noun

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ban ?

  1. roof

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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ban

  1. imperative of bane (Etymology 3)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ban n

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of barn (child)

Old English

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Etymology

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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)).

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bān n (nominative plural bān)

  1. bone
  2. ivory

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative bān bān
accusative bān bān
genitive bānes bāna
dative bāne bānum

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

Old Irish

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Noun

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ban

  1. genitive dual/plural of ben

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ban

  1. first-person plural imperative of is

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Mutation

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Mutation of ban
radical lenition nasalization
ban ban
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
mban

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

O'odham

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Etymology

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Cognate with Southeastern Tepehuan bhan, Northern Tepehuan bánai.

Noun

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ban (plural ba꞉ban)

  1. coyote

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese vambora.

Interjection

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ban

  1. let’s go

Phalura

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Etymology

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

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ban (invariable, Perso-Arabic spelling بن)

  1. closed
  2. blocked, stopped

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References

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

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Romanian ban.

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ban m animal

  1. ban (subdivision of currency)

Etymology 2

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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).

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ban m animal

  1. (Internet) ban
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Etymology 3

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

Noun

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ban m pers

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

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  • ban in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ban in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English ban.

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Noun

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ban

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

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unknown. Perhaps from Medieval Latin *bannus (communication), perhaps through a German intermediate.[1] 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.[2]

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ban m (plural bani)

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

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Usually used in the plural form, bani

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ban banul bani banii
genitive-dative ban banului bani banilor
vocative banule banilor

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  1. ^ http://webdex.ro/etimologic/ban
  2. ^ Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Late Proto-Slavic *banъ.

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bȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑н)

  1. ban (title)

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien  / (pôaⁿ, tray, plate, dish).

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Noun

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ban (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔)

  1. (rare) wheel
    Synonyms: gulong, ruweda

Tarifit

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic بان (bān).

Pronunciation

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ban (Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴰⵏ)

  1. (intransitive) to appear, to emerge

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Tày

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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ban ()

  1. well-developed; husky
    slao banbusty girl
    bâư banleaf reaching the bánh tẻ stage

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References

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

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun

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ban

  1. (historical) branch of administration in the feudal court (of which there are two types: the civil administrators and the martial office holders)
  2. group (of people doing the same work); band; board; squad; committee
  3. shift; work period
  4. (only in compounds) time period; section of the day
    Synonym: buổi
    ban trưanoon
  5. (dated) (college-level) subject; (academic) department

Etymology 2

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Noun

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(classifier cây, hoa) ban

  1. orchid tree (Bauhinia variegata)

Etymology 3

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Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun

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ban

  1. (medicine) rash

Etymology 4

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Noun

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ban

  1. (Central Vietnam) ball

Etymology 5

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Noun

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ban

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of pan

Etymology 6

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Sino-Vietnamese word from .

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ban

  1. (archaic) to confer on; to bestow
  2. (archaic) to announce; to herald; to proclaim

Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bain.

Noun

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ban (nominative plural bans)

  1. bath

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Welsh

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ban m (plural bannau or bannoedd)

  1. peak, summit
  2. point, principle
    Synonyms: pwnc, testun

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of ban
radical soft nasal aspirate
ban fan man unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ban”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yagara

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ban

  1. dirty
  2. nasty
  3. very angry

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Zazaki

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Noun

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ban

  1. dome, cupola
  2. room

Zou

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Ban.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bàn

  1. arm

References

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