ممنوع

Derived from the passive participle of the verb مَنَعَ (manaʕa, “to forbid”).

• IPA^(key): /mam.nuːʕ/
• Rhymes: -uːʕ

مَمْنُوع • (mamnūʕ) (feminine مَمْنُوعَة (mamnūʕa), masculine plural مَمْنُوعُونَ (mamnūʕūna), feminine plural مَمْنُوعَات (mamnūʕāt))

1. forbidden

   Synonym: مَحْظُور (maḥẓūr)

   Antonyms: مَسْمُوح (masmūḥ), مُبَاح (mubāḥ)

2. hindered
3. prevented
4. (grammar) uninflected, undeclinable

• مَمْنُوع مِن الصَّرْف (mamnūʕ min aṣ-ṣarf)

• → Azerbaijani: məmnu
• → Persian: ممنوع
  • → Urdu: ممنوع
• → Ottoman Turkish: ممنوع (memnu')
  • Turkish: memnu
• → Uzbek: mamnu'

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ممنوع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic مَمْنُوع (mamnūʕ).

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ممنوع • (mamnu')

1. prohibited
2. forbidden

• ممنوعه (mamnu'e)
• ممنوع کردن (mamnu' kardan)

From Arabic مَمْنُوع (mamnūʕ). Equivalent to the passive participle of منع (manaʕ, “to forbid”).

• IPA^(key): /mam.nuːʕ/, [mamˈnuːʕ]

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ممنوع • (mamnūʕ) (feminine ممنوعة (mamnūʕa))

1. forbidden, prohibited

   Antonym: مسموح (masmūḥ)

   ممنوع حد يوكل أيّ إشي إلّا بعد ما يغسّل إيديه منيح.

   mamnūʕ ḥad yōkel ʔayy ʔiši ʔilla baʕd mā yḡassel ʔīdēh mnīḥ

   Nobody is allowed to eat anything until they've washed their hands well.

   (literally, “It is forbidden for someone to eat anything except after he washes his hands well.”)

• منع (manaʕ, “to forbid”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian ممنوع (mamnu'), taken from Arabic مَمْنُوع (mamnūʕ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məm.nuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

مَمْنُوع • (mamnūʻ) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मम्नू)

1. forbidden, prohibited

   Synonym: منع (manaʻ)

• “ممنوع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ممنوع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.