verboten

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”). Doublet of forbidden. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/, /fə-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/, /ˌvəɹ-/, [-ɾ(ə)n] Rhymes: -əʊtən Hyphenation: ver‧bot‧en === Adjective === verboten (not comparable) (often emphatic or humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited. Synonyms: banned, disallowed, proscribed; see also Thesaurus:forbidden ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === overbent == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German verboten, from Old High German firbotan, from Proto-West Germanic *furibodan, from Proto-Germanic *furibudanaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈboːtn̩/, /fɛɐ̯ˈboːtən/ === Participle === verboten past participle of verbieten === Adjective === verboten (strong nominative masculine singular verbotener, not comparable) forbidden, prohibited, banned die verbotene Frucht ― the forbidden fruit Rauchen verboten ― Do not smoke! ==== Declension ==== ==== Antonyms ==== erlaubt === Further reading === “verboten”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German) “verboten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “verboten” in Duden online “verboten” in OpenThesaurus.de