different between forbidding vs embargo

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??b?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??b?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: for?bid?ding

Adjective

forbidding (comparative more forbidding, superlative most forbidding)

1. Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
   • 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, London, 1760, Volume 3, Book 15, lines 57-58, p. 100,^[1]

     What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight,

     To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume I, Chapter 3,^[2]

     […] he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

   • 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1923, Chapter 28, p. 498,^[3]

     The writer of the “blank” letter begins fluently with the date and “Dear Mary,” and then sits and chews his penholder or makes little dots and squares and circles on the blotter—utterly unable to attack the cold, forbidding blankness of that first page.

   • 1988, “If You Can’t Fight City Hall, Here’s a Different Idea: Sell It,” The New York Times, 10 January, 1988,^[4]

     Its forbidding brick and concrete exterior looms over a vast, windswept brick plaza in a style architectural critics, not without admiration, call “The New Brutalism.”

Antonyms

• approachable
• inviting
• welcoming

Translations

Verb

forbidding

1. present participle of forbid

Noun

forbidding (plural forbiddings)

1. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[5]

     But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;

   • 1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228,^[6]

     All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law.

English

Etymology

From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra. More at embarrass.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?b???o?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?b?????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)???

Noun

embargo (plural embargoes or embargos)

1. An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
2. A ban on trade with another country.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.

3. A temporary ban on making certain information public.

   This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.

Translations

Verb

embargo (third-person singular simple present embargoes, present participle embargoing, simple past and past participle embargoed)

1. (transitive) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
2. (transitive) To impose an embargo on a document.

Anagrams

• Bergamo

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Spanish embargo

Noun

embargo

1. embargo.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Etymology

From Spanish embargo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??mbar?o]
• Hyphenation: em?bar?go

Noun

embargo n

1. embargo (an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (a ban on trade with another country)

Declension

Further reading

• embargo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• embargo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish embargo or French embargo (itself from Spanish), from Spanish embargar (“to arrest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?b?r.?o?/
• Hyphenation: em?bar?go

Noun

embargo n (plural embargo's, diminutive embargootje n)

1. embargo (order prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (ban on trade with another country)

   Synonym: handelsembargo

3. embargo (temporary ban or restriction on making certain information public)

Derived terms

• handelsembargo

Descendants

• Afrikaans: embargo
• ? Indonesian: embargo

Esperanto

Noun

embargo (accusative singular embargon, plural embargoj, accusative plural embargojn)

1. embargo

Finnish

Noun

embargo

1. embargo

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ba?.?o/

Noun

embargo m (plural embargos)

1. embargo

Further reading

• “embargo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Noun

embargo (plural embargi)

1. embargo

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch embargo, from Spanish embargo or French embargo (itself from Spanish), from Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?bar?o]
• Hyphenation: èm?bar?go

Noun

embargo (plural embargo-embargo, first-person possessive embargoku, second-person possessive embargomu, third-person possessive embargonya)

1. embargo:
   1. an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
   2. a ban on trade with another country.
   3. a temporary ban on making certain information public.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “embargo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

embargo m (plural embarghi)

1. embargo

Anagrams

• Bergamo, gambero

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish embargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?bar.??/

Noun

embargo n

1. embargo (order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (ban on trade with another country)
3. embargo (temporary ban on making certain information public)

Declension

Further reading

• embargo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• embargo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??ba??u/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??ba??u/
• Hyphenation: em?bar?go

Noun

embargo m (plural embargos)

1. embargo (an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (a ban on trade with another country)

Romanian

Etymology

From French embargo.

Noun

embargo n (plural embargouri)

1. embargo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

See embargar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /em?ba??o/, [?m?ba?.??o]
• Hyphenation: em?bar?go

Noun

embargo m (plural embargos)

1. embargo
2. trade embargo
3. distraint
4. seizure, freezing (juridical detention of goods)
5. foreclosure
6. repossession

Derived terms

• sin embargo

Related terms

• embargar

Swedish

Noun

embargo n

1. embargo

Declension