forban

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English forbannen, partly from Middle English for- + bannen, equivalent to for- +‎ ban; and partly from Old French forbenir (“to banish”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbonne (“to banish”), West Frisian ferbanne (“to banish”), Dutch verbannen (“to banish”), German Low German verbannen (“to banish”), German verbannen (“to banish”), Swedish förbanna (“to curse, damn”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -æn === Verb === forban (third-person singular simple present forbans, present participle forbanning, simple past and past participle forbanned) (transitive, rare, archaic, poetic or obsolete) To exile; banish. 1918, Clark Ashton Smith, "Satan Unrepentant"[1] (also on page 295 of the 2014 collection The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies): Lost from those archangelic thrones that star, Fadeless and fixed, heaven's light of azure bliss; Forbanned of all His splendor and depressed Beyond the birth of the first sun, and lower Than the last star's decline == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French fourban, from Old French forsban, forban (“pirate, privateer, banishment”), deverbal of forbenir (“to banish, to exile”), from Frankish *frabannijan (“to ban, banish”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *bannijaną (“to request, damn, curse”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, pronounce”). Cognate with Dutch verbannen (“to outcast, banish, exile”), German verbannen (“to banish, exile”), Norwegian forbanne (“to curse”). More at for-, ban. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɔʁ.bɑ̃/ === Noun === forban m (plural forbans) (archaic) pirate rogue, scoundrel; an unscrupulous individual capable of any wrongdoing ==== Synonyms ==== bandit corsaire crapule flibustier gredin pirate === Further reading === “forban”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Old French == === Etymology === Deverbal of forbanir, from Frankish *frabannan. === Noun === forban oblique singular, m (oblique plural forbans, nominative singular forbans, nominative plural forban) banishment (state of being banished) === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “forban”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French forban. === Noun === forban m (plural forbani) pirate ==== Declension ====