" ban "

[Verb]  | "ban" | \ ˈban \

1: to prohibit especially by legal means; also : to prohibit the use, performance, or distribution of

2: bar

3: curse

Origin: 12th century ;

 Middle English bannen "to summon (troops) by proclamation, assemble (an armed force), gather (arms), curse, anathematize, prohibit, outlaw," going back to Old English bannan (class VII strong verb) "to summon by proclamation, call to arms," going back to Germanic *bannan- "to speak formally, call on, order" (whence also Old Frisian bonna, banna "to call upon, command, place under a ban," Old Saxon & Old High German bannan "to summon, order," Old Norse banna "to prohibit, curse"), going back to Indo-European *bho-n-h2-e-, presumed o-grade intensive derivative (with gemination from a present formation with *-nu̯-e-?) from a verbal base *bheh2- "speak, say," whence also Latin for, fārī "to speak, say," Greek phēmí, phánai, Armenian bay "(s/he) says, speaks," and with extensions Eastern Church Slavic baju, bajati "to tell (stories), cast a spell, cure," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian bȁjati "to tell tales, practice sorcery," Sanskrit bhánati "(s/he) speaks, says, (it) sounds";

  * Note : The senses "curse, anathematize, prohibit," etc., in Middle English are not attested in Old English and are generally thought to reflect influence of the cognate Old Norse verb. The English verb has also been influenced in sense by Medieval Latin bannīre and Old French banir (see: {banish|banish}). — The reconstruction of the source of Germanic *bannan- in Indo-European terms is from G. Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Brill, 2013), though any number of alternative reconstructions are possible that result in the new verbal base *bann-. Indo-European *bheh2- "speak, say" is phonetically identical with and probably a semantic offshoot of the base *bheh2- "shine, give light, appear" (see: {fantasy:1|fantasy:1}); the presumed sense in shift would be "shine, give light" > "make bright, illuminate" > "make clear, clarify" > "speak, say.";

[Verb]  | "shadow ban" 

1: to cause (a user or their content) to be hidden from some or all other users usually without the user's knowledge

Origin: 2007 ;

[Noun]  | "ban" 

1: legal or formal prohibition

2: censure or condemnation especially through social pressure

3: anathema, excommunication

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English ban, bane, banne "proclamation by an authority, summons, one of the marriage banns, troop of warriors summoned by their overlord," in part noun derivative of bannen "to summon (troops) by proclamation," in part borrowed from Anglo-French ban, baan "proclamation, edict, jurisdiction, one of the marriage banns" (also continental Old French, "summons to arms by a lord, proclamation commanding or prohibiting an action"), going back to Old Low Franconian *banna-, going back to Germanic (whence also Old Frisian bon, ban, bān "order commanding or prohibiting under pain of a fine, authority, summoning of the army, banishment," Old Saxon bann "command, summons, fine, excommunication," Old High German ban "command by an authority, order, legal extension or withdrawal of protection"), noun derivative of *bannan- "to speak formally, call on, order" {mat|ban:1|};

  * Note : The Middle English noun may also continue Old English gebann, gebenn "edict, proclamation, command," a derivative of gebannan, similar in meaning to unprefixed bannan. The negative senses "prohibition, condemnation," etc., though present to a limited degree already in early Medieval Latin, do not appear in English (or French) until the sixteenth century, and are in part derived from the verb {ban:1|ban:1}. The Germanic etymon appears in Latin as bannus (or bannum), from the sixth century in Gregory of Tours' Historia Francorum, and the seventh century in the Lex Ripuaria, the laws of the Ripuarian Franks; the Latin word went on to develop a broad range of meanings (compare the entries in J. F. Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis lexicon minus and Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources).;

[Noun]  | "ban" | \ ˈbän \

1: a monetary subunit of the leu

Origin: 1880 ;

 Romanian, money, coin, small coin;

[Noun]  | "ar*ri*ère-ban" | \ ˌa-rē-ər-ˈbän \

1: a proclamation of a king (as of France) calling his vassals to arms; also : the body of vassals summoned

Origin: 1523 ;

 Borrowed from French, going back to Old French riere ban, arriereban, arier ban "body of subvassals summoned by the king," alteration (by assimilation of the first element to ariere, arriere "backward, behind") of herban, araban, arban "service due a feudal lord in place of military service," going back to an Old Low Franconian outcome of regional West Germanic *hariban- "summoning of the war band" (whence also Old High German heripan in same sense), from Germanic *harji- "armed force, host" + *banna- "calling up, summons, proclamation" {mat|arrear|}, {mat|harry|}, {mat|ban:2|};

  * Note : The attested meaning of Old French herban, araban, etc., "service due to a feudal lord in place of military service," shows adaptation of the original call to arms to feudal conditions, under which vassals or subvassals unable to provide an armed man could pay a tax or perform another service. Compare Medieval Latin (in the Old Saxon speech area) heribannus, heribannum "war tax" (see: entry in H. Tiefenbach, Altsächsisches Handwörterbuch, De Gruyter, 2010).;

[Noun]  | "test ban" 

1: a self-imposed partial or complete ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries possessing such weapons

Origin: 1958 ;

[Noun]  | "trigger law" 

1: a currently unenforceable law that upon the occurrence of an event (such as a court decision) becomes enforceable

Origin: 1983 ;

[Biographical name]  | "Ban Ki-moon" | \ ˈbän-ˈkē-ˈmün \

1: 1944— South Korean diplomat; secretary-general of U.N. (2007—16)

[Verb]  | "ban" 

[Noun]  | "ban"