ban
see also: BAN, Ban
Pronunciation Etymology 1
BAN
Proper noun
Ban
Etymology
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see also: BAN, Ban
Pronunciation 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.
Verbban (bans, present participle banning; simple past and past participle banned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
- (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- (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.
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon:
- (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.
- (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”
- French: interdire, proscrire, bannir
- German: verbieten
- Italian: espellere, vietare, censurare, bandire, proibire
- Portuguese: proibir, banir
- Russian: запреща́ть
- Spanish: prohibir
ban (plural bans)
- 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
- 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.
- 1641, William Rastell (trans.), John Rastell, Termes de la Lay, 37b:
- 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.”
- 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:
- (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
- 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.
- French: interdiction, prohibition
- German: Verbot
- Italian: proibizione, divieto
- Portuguese: proibição
- Russian: запре́т
- Spanish: prohibición
Borrowed from Romanian ban of uncertain origin, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian ban.
Nounban (plural bani)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- German: Ban
From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.
Nounban (plural bans)
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
From zls (compare Serbo-Croatian ban), from sla-pro *banъ; see there for more.
Nounban (plural bans)
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
- German: Ban, Banus
- Italian: bano
BAN
Proper noun
- (sports) Abbreviation of Bangladesh
- 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 坂.
- As a Korean - surname, spelling variant of Pan.
- As a Chinese - surname, from 班.
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