different between banish vs forban

English

Etymology

From Middle English banysshen, from Old French banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”) and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“curse, forbid”). Compare to French bannir.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?n'?sh, IPA^(key): /?bæn??/
• Rhymes: -æn??

Verb

banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)

1. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
   1. (with simple direct object)

      If you don't stop talking blasphemies, I will banish you.

   2. (with from)

      He was banished from the kingdom.
   3. (dated, with out of)
   4. (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
      • , II.10:

        he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].

      • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 1985, p.190:

        Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

2. To expel, especially from the mind.

Related terms

• banishment

Translations

Further reading

• banish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• banish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• banish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bhasin, ash-bin, ashbin, bash in, bashin', nisbah

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 ferbanne (“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)

1. (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

   • 2013, Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice:

     Kenneth Meredith has noted that the coutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had been forbanned."

French

Etymology

From Middle French fourban, from Old French forsban, forban (“pirate, privateer, banishment”), deverbal of forbenir (“to banish, to exile”), from Frankish furbannjan, *firbannjan (“to ban, banish”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *bannijan? (“to request, damn, curse”), from Proto-Indo-European *bh?- (“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): /f??.b??/

Noun

forban m (plural forbans)

1. (archaic) pirate
2. 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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Deverbal of forbenir.

Noun

forban m (oblique plural forbans, nominative singular forbans, nominative plural forban)

1. banishment (state of being banished)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (forban)

Romanian

Etymology

From French forban.

Noun

forban m (plural forbani)

1. pirate

Declension