ban

• IPA^(key): /bæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

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-nu-énti, nasal-infixed zero-grade 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.

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.
   • (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?)
4. (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.

5. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

• forbid
• prohibit
• disallow

• forban

ban (plural bans)

1. Prohibition.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     under ban to touch

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Hecate's ban

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.

• black ban
• total fire ban

• banns

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

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.

From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.

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.

• dit, hartley

• deciban

• bit, nat, qubit

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

ban (plural bans)

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

• banat, banate, Banat

• ABN, BNA, NAB, NBA, nab

• IPA^(key): [bã˦]

ban

1. to finish

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈban/

ban m (plural bans)

1. ban (a public proclamation or edict)

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)

• banat

• “ban” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ban” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ban” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ban” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• IPA^(key): /bɑn/

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• Hyphenation: ban
• Rhymes: -ɑn

ban m (plural bannen)

1. excommunication, denunciation
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

• balling
• banneling
• huwelijksban

• banaal

Borrowed from English ban.

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/
• Hyphenation: ban
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophone: ben

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.

Mostly common within internet communities.

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /bɑn/

ban

1. first-person singular present indicative of bannen
2. imperative of bannen

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/

ban

1. first-person singular present indicative of bannen
2. imperative of bannen

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃/
• Homophones: banc, bancs, bans

From Old French ban, from Frankish *ban.

ban m (plural bans)

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

• arrière-ban

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȃn. See English ban.

ban m (plural bans)

1. ban (nobleman)

• “ban” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

ban

1. give

• ban
• bay

• IPA^(key): [ban]

ban

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

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

Borrowed from Dutch band (“band, connection, tire/tyre”).

ban (plural ban-ban, first-person possessive banku, second-person possessive banmu, third-person possessive bannya)

1. tyre / tire

• IPA^(key): [ban]

ban f pl

1. genitive plural of bean

• "ban" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

ban

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

Related to Persian بام‎ (bâm).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːn/

ban ?

1. roof

ban

1. sneeze

ban

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

• 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.

ban (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. death

ban (using Raguileo Alphabet)

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

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

From Old English bana.

ban

1. Alternative form of bane

From Old English bān.

ban

1. Alternative form of bon

ban

1. imperative of bane (Etymology 3)

Cognate with Southeastern Tepehuan bhan, Northern Tepehuan bánai.

ban (plural ba꞉ban)

1. coyote

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”)).

• IPA^(key): /bɑːn/

bān n (nominative plural bān)

1. bone

• bānlēas
• hryċġbān
• sċinbān

• Middle English: ban, bon
  • Scots: bane, bean, bain
  • English: bone
  • Northumbrian: byen

• baán

ban

1. first-person plural imperative of is

• IPA^(key): /ban/

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ban m anim

1. ban (a subdivision of currency)

Borrowed from English ban.

ban m anim

1. ban (on the Internet)

• banować

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ban, from Turkish bajan.

ban m pers

1. ban (title)

• ban in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

ban m (plural bani)

1. money; coin

Usually used in the plural form, bani

• bancnotă (“paper money, bank note”)
• monedă

From Late Proto-Slavic *banъ.

• IPA^(key): /bâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

bȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑н)

1. ban (title)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 班.

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

5. (dated) (college-level) subject; (academic) department

(classifier cây, hoa) ban

1. orchid tree (Bauhinia variegata)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 斑.

ban

1. (medicine) rash

ban

1. (Central Vietnam) ball

ban

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of pan

Sino-Vietnamese word from 頒.

ban

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

Borrowed from French bain.

ban (plural bans)

1. bath

• banön

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

ban m (plural bannau or bannoedd)

1. peak

ban

1. dome, cupola