ban
see also: BAN, Ban
Pronunciation
  • (RP, America) IPA: /bæn/
  • (Australia) IPA: /bæːn/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA: [bɛən], [beən]
Etymology 1

From Middle English bannen, partly from Old English bannan, from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna, both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną, from Proto-Indo-European , innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- ("to say").

Cognate with Dutch bannen, German bannen, Swedish banna, sa-ved भनति, Armenian բան and perhaps Albanian banoj. See also banal, abandon.

Verb

ban (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
    Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
  5. (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
    • 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC ↗:
      :“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Noun

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
  2. A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
    • 1641, William Rastell (trans.), John 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 (play), Act I, page 8:
      […] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King […]
    • 1683, William Temple, Memoirs of what past in Christendom, from the War begun 1672, to the Peace concluded 1679, chapter I:
      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, Arms And Armour In Antiquity And The Middle Ages, chapter 7, 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.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
      With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected
  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.
Translations Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.
Translations Etymology 3

From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.

Noun

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.
Synonyms Etymology 4

From zls (compare Serbo-Croatian ban), from sla-pro *banъ; see there for more.

Noun

ban (plural bans)

  1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
Related terms Translations
  • German: Ban, Banus
  • Italian: bano

BAN
Proper noun
  1. (sports) Abbreviation of Bangladesh
Noun
  1. Initialism of British Approved Name

Ban
Etymology
  • As a Hungarian - surname, from Bán.
  • As a Hungarian - and Serbo-Croatian - surname, from bán, probably related to Avaric баян.
  • As a Slovenian -, reduced from Urban.
  • As a German - surname, spelling variant of Bann.
  • As a Japanese - surname, from .
  • As a Korean - surname, spelling variant of Pan.
  • As a Chinese - surname, from .
Proper noun
  1. Surname.



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