Smoking in the restaurant was forbidden.
Source: tatoeba (29514)
Forbidden
//fə.ˈbɪ.dn̩//
Synonyms for "forbidden" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Adjective(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (25)
Related word relations
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5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
12 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
92 translations across 62 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀπόρρητος adj (not allowed)
Arabic
4 entries- مَحْظُور adj (not allowed)
- مَمْنُوع adj (not allowed)
- مَمْنُوع adj (not allowed)
- مُحَرَّم adj (not allowed)
Armenian
1 entries- արգելված adj (not allowed)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qadağan adj (not allowed)
Belarusian
1 entries- забаро́нены adj (not allowed)
Bislama
1 entries- tabu adj (not allowed)
Bulgarian
1 entries- забранен adj (not allowed)
Catalan
1 entries- prohibit adj (not allowed)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- قەدەغە adj (not allowed)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 禁止 adj (not allowed)
- 被禁止 adj (not allowed)
Czech
1 entries- zakázaný adj (not allowed)
Danish
1 entries- forbudt adj (not allowed)
Dutch
1 entries- verboden adj (not allowed)
Esperanto
2 entries- malpermesa adj (not allowed)
- malpermesita adj (not allowed)
Estonian
1 entries- keelatud adj (not allowed)
Faroese
1 entries- forboðin adj (not allowed)
Finnish
1 entries- kielletty adj (not allowed)
French
1 entries- interdit adj (not allowed)
Friulian
1 entries- improibît adj (not allowed)
Galician
1 entries- prohibido adj (not allowed)
German
1 entries- verboten adj (not allowed)
Greek
1 entries- απαγορευμένος adj (not allowed)
Hebrew
1 entries- אסור adj (not allowed)
Hindi
2 entries- मना adj (not allowed)
- वर्जित adj (not allowed)
Hungarian
1 entries- tilos adj (not allowed)
Icelandic
1 entries- forboðinn adj (not allowed)
Ido
1 entries- interdiktita adj (not allowed)
Indonesian
1 entries- dilarang adj (not allowed)
Irish
4 entries- coiscthe adj (not allowed)
- crosta adj (not allowed)
- faoi chosc adj (not allowed)
- toirmiscthe adj (not allowed)
Italian
2 entries- proibito adj (not allowed)
- vietato adj (not allowed)
Ivatan
1 entries- vadawen adj (not allowed)
Japanese
4 entries- 禁 adj (not allowed)
- 禁じられた adj (not allowed)
- 禁断の adj (not allowed)
- 禁止された adj (not allowed)
Kazakh
1 entries- тыйылған adj (not allowed)
Latin
3 entries- impermissus adj (not allowed)
- interdictus adj (not allowed)
- vetitus adj (not allowed)
Macedonian
1 entries- забранет adj (not allowed)
Malay
2 entries- dilarang adj (not allowed)
- haram adj (not allowed)
Māori
2 entries- rāhui adj (not allowed)
- tapu adj (not allowed)
Norwegian
1 entries- forbudt adj (not allowed)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forboden adj (not allowed)
Occitan
1 entries- proïbit adj (not allowed)
Old English
1 entries- forboden adj (not allowed)
Oromo
1 entries- dhorkaa adj (not allowed)
Persian
2 entries- ممنوع adj (not allowed)
- ممنوعه adj (not allowed)
Polish
3 entries- wzbroniony adj (not allowed)
- zabroniony adj (not allowed)
- zakazany adj (not allowed)
Portuguese
1 entries- proibido adj (not allowed)
Romanian
2 entries- interzis adj (not allowed)
- nepermis adj (not allowed)
Russian
1 entries- запрещённый adj (not allowed)
Sanskrit
3 entries- न कर्तव्यम् adj (not allowed)
- निषिद्ध adj (not allowed)
- प्रतिषिद्ध adj (not allowed)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zabranjen adj (not allowed)
- забрањен adj (not allowed)
Slovak
1 entries- zakázaný adj (not allowed)
Slovene
1 entries- prepovedan adj (not allowed)
Spanish
3 entries- defeso adj (not allowed)
- interdicho adj (not allowed)
- vedado adj (not allowed)
Swedish
1 entries- förbjuden adj (not allowed)
Tagalog
1 entries- bawal adj (not allowed)
Telugu
1 entries- నిషిద్ధము adj (not allowed)
Thai
2 entries- ต้องห้าม adj (not allowed)
- หวงห้าม adj (not allowed)
Turkish
2 entries- kadağa adj (not allowed)
- yasak adj (not allowed)
Ukrainian
1 entries- заборо́нений adj (not allowed)
Urdu
2 entries- ممنوع adj (not allowed)
- منع adj (not allowed)
West-Frisian
1 entries- ferbean adj (not allowed)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרבאָטן adj (not allowed)
Zazaki
2 entries- qedeğe adj (not allowed)
- tomet adj (not allowed)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Students are forbidden to smoke on the school grounds.
Source: tatoeba (48938)
But today smoking in public places is forbidden or strictly restricted.
Source: tatoeba (53541)
Hunting game is forbidden in these tranquil woods.
Source: tatoeba (58218)
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