adj
Meaning 1
Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prohibited, verboten, proscribed
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
forbidden
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /fəˈbɪdən/
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Received-Pronunciation: [fəːˈbɪdən] ~ [fəˈbɪdn̩]
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General-American: /fɚˈbɪdən/
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General-American: [fɚˈbɪdən] ~ [fɚˈbɪd.n̩]
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Scotland: /fəɾˈbɪdən/
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Scotland: [fəɾˈbɪdən] ~ [fəɾˈbɪdn̩]
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New-Zealand: /fəˈbədən/
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New-Zealand: [fəːˈbədən] ~ [fəˈbədn̩]
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rhymes with -ɪdən
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CMU ARPABET: F AO1 R B IH0 D AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: F ER0 R B IH1 D AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
past participle of forbid
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
excluded from use or mention
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- forbidden fruit
- in our house dancing and playing cards were out
- a taboo subject
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: out(p), prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Past participle of the verb forbid. Doublet of verboten. Compare German verboten, Dutch verboden, Swedish förbjuden, and West Frisian ferbean.
Across languages
Translations
92 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَحْظُور (maḥẓūr) — not allowed
- Arabic: مُحَرَّم (muḥarram) — not allowed
- Arabic: مَمْنُوع (mamnūʕ) — not allowed
- Arabic: مَمْنُوع (mamnúʕ) — not allowed
- Armenian: արգելված (argelvac) — not allowed
- Azerbaijani: qadağan — not allowed
- Belarusian: забаро́нены (zabarónjeny) — not allowed
- Bislama: tabu — not allowed
- Bulgarian: забранен (zabranen) — not allowed
- Catalan: prohibit — not allowed
- Chinese Mandarin: 被禁止 (bèi jìnzhǐ) — not allowed
- Chinese Mandarin: 禁止 (jìnzhǐ) — not allowed
- Czech: zakázaný — not allowed
- Danish: forbudt — not allowed
- Dutch: verboden — not allowed
- Esperanto: malpermesa — not allowed
- Esperanto: malpermesita — not allowed
- Estonian: keelatud — not allowed
- Faroese: forboðin — not allowed
- Finnish: kielletty — not allowed
- French: interdit — not allowed
- West-Frisian: ferbean — not allowed
- Friulian: improibît — not allowed
- Galician: prohibido — not allowed
- German: verboten — not allowed
- Greek: απαγορευμένος (apagorevménos) — not allowed
- Ancient Greek: ἀπόρρητος (apórrhētos) — not allowed
- Hebrew: אסור (asúr) — not allowed
- Hindi: मना (manā) — not allowed
- Hindi: वर्जित (varjit) — not allowed
- Hungarian: tilos — not allowed
- Icelandic: forboðinn — not allowed
- Ido: interdiktita — not allowed
- Indonesian: dilarang — not allowed
- Irish: coiscthe — not allowed
- Irish: crosta — not allowed
- Irish: faoi chosc — not allowed
- Irish: toirmiscthe — not allowed
- Italian: vietato — not allowed
- Italian: proibito — not allowed
- Ivatan: vadawen — not allowed
- Japanese: 禁じられた (kinjirareta) — not allowed
- Japanese: 禁止された (kinshi sareta) — not allowed
- Japanese: 禁断の (kindan no) — not allowed
- Japanese: 禁 (kin) — not allowed
- Kazakh: тыйылған (tyiylğan) — not allowed
- Central Kurdish: قەدەغە (qedeẍe) — not allowed
- Latin: vetitus — not allowed
- Latin: interdictus — not allowed
- Latin: impermissus — not allowed
- Macedonian: забранет (zabranet) — not allowed
- Malay: dilarang — not allowed
- Malay: haram — not allowed
- Māori: rāhui — not allowed
- Māori: tapu — not allowed
- Norwegian: forbudt — not allowed
- Norwegian Nynorsk: forboden — not allowed
- Occitan: proïbit — not allowed
- Old English: forboden — not allowed
- Oromo: dhorkaa — not allowed
- Persian: ممنوعه (mamnu'eh) — not allowed
- Persian: ممنوع (mamnu') — not allowed
- Polish: zabroniony — not allowed
- Polish: zakazany — not allowed
- Polish: wzbroniony — not allowed
- Portuguese: proibido — not allowed
- Romanian: interzis — not allowed
- Romanian: nepermis — not allowed
- Russian: запрещённый (zapreščónnyj) — not allowed
- Sanskrit: निषिद्ध (niṣiddha) — not allowed
- Sanskrit: प्रतिषिद्ध (pratiṣiddha) — not allowed
- Sanskrit: न कर्तव्यम् (na kartavyam) — not allowed
- Serbo-Croatian: забрањен — not allowed
- Serbo-Croatian: zabranjen — not allowed
- Slovak: zakázaný — not allowed
- Slovene: prepovedan — not allowed
- Spanish: vedado — not allowed
- Spanish: defeso — not allowed
- Spanish: interdicho — not allowed
- Swedish: förbjuden — not allowed
- Tagalog: bawal — not allowed
- Telugu: నిషిద్ధము (niṣiddhamu) — not allowed
- Thai: ต้องห้าม — not allowed
- Thai: หวงห้าม — not allowed
- Turkish: yasak — not allowed
- Turkish: kadağa — not allowed
- Ukrainian: заборо́нений (zaborónenyj) — not allowed
- Urdu: منع (manā) — not allowed
- Urdu: ممنوع (mamnūʻ) — not allowed
- Yiddish: פֿאַרבאָטן (farbotn) — not allowed
- Zazaki: tomet — not allowed
- Zazaki: qedeğe — not allowed
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