forbidden

English

Etymology

Past participle of the verb forbid.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈbɪdn̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɚˈbɪdn̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdən

Adjective

forbidden (comparative more forbidden, superlative most forbidden)

1. Not allowed; specifically disallowed.

   Synonyms: prohibited, verboten, proscribed

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:

     Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

   • 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276:

     This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.

Derived terms

• Forbidden City
• forbidden degree
• forbidden experiment
• forbidden fruit
• forbidden fruit is the sweetest
• forbidden rice

 

Translations

not allowed

• Arabic: مَحْظُور (maḥẓūr), مُحَرَّم (ar) (muḥarram), مَمْنُوع (mamnūʕ)

  South Levantine Arabic: مَمْنُوع (mamnúʕ)

• Armenian: արգելված (hy) (argelvac)
• Azerbaijani: qadağan (az)
• Belarusian: забаро́нены (zabarónjeny)
• Bislama: tabu
• Bulgarian: забранен (bg) (zabranen)
• Catalan: prohibit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被禁止 (zh) (bèi jìnzhǐ), 禁止 (zh) (jìnzhǐ)

• Czech: zakázaný (cs)
• Danish: forbudt
• Dutch: verboden (nl)
• Esperanto: malpermesa, malpermesita
• Estonian: keelatud
• Faroese: forboðin
• Finnish: kielletty (fi)
• French: interdit (fr)
• Friulian: improibît
• Galician: prohibido
• German: verboten (de)
• Greek: απαγορευμένος (el) (apagorevménos)

  Ancient: ἀπόρρητος (apórrhētos)

• Hebrew: אסור (he) (asúr)
• Hindi: मना (hi) (manā)
• Hungarian: tilos (hu)
• Icelandic: forboðinn
• Ido: interdiktita
• Indonesian: dilarang (id)
• Irish: coiscthe, crosta, faoi chosc, toirmiscthe
• Italian: vietato (it), proibito (it)
• Ivatan: vadawen
• Japanese: 禁じられた (ja) (kinjirareta), 禁止された (ja) (kinshi sareta), 禁断の (ja) (kindan no), 禁 (ja) (kin) (suffix)
• Kazakh: тыйылған (tyiylğan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قەدەغە (qedeẍe)

• Latin: vetitus, interdictus, impermissus
• Macedonian: забранет (zabranet)
• Malay: dilarang (ms)
• Maori: rāhui, tapu (mi)
• Norwegian: forbudt

  Nynorsk: forboden

• Occitan: proïbit
• Old English: forboden
• Oromo: dhorkaa
• Persian: ممنوعه (fa) (mamnu'eh), ممنوع (fa) (mamnu')
• Polish: zabroniony (pl), zakazany (pl), wzbroniony
• Portuguese: proibido (pt)
• Romanian: interzis (ro), nepermis
• Russian: запрещённый (ru) (zapreščónnyj)
• Sanskrit: निषिद्ध (sa) (niṣiddha), प्रतिषिद्ध (sa) (pratiṣiddha), न कर्तव्यम् (na kartavyam)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: забрањен

  Latin: zabranjen (sh)

• Slovak: zakázaný
• Slovene: prepovedan (sl)
• Spanish: prohibido (es), defeso m
• Swedish: förbjuden (sv)
• Tagalog: bawal
• Telugu: నిషిద్ధము (te) (niṣiddhamu)
• Thai: ต้องห้าม, หวงห้าม (th)
• Turkish: yasak (tr), kadağa (tr)
• Ukrainian: заборо́нений (zaborónenyj)
• Urdu: منع (manā), ممنوع (mamnūʻ)
• West Frisian: ferbean
• Yiddish: פֿאַרבאָטן (farbotn)
• Zazaki: tomet f, qedeğe

See also

• taboo

Verb

forbidden

1. past participle of forbid