منع - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From the root م ن ع (m n ʕ). Cognate with Hebrew מָנַע (mānaʿ).

مَنْع • (manʕ) m

1. verbal noun of مَنَعَ (manaʕa) (form I)
2. prevention

• → Persian: منع (man')
• عات→ Turkish: men, ⇒ menetmek

مَنَعَ • (manaʕa) I (non-past يَمْنَعُ (yamnaʕu), verbal noun مَنْع (manʕ))

1. to hinder, to prevent, to repel

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 38:75:

     قَالَ يَا إِبْلِيسُ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ أَمْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الْعَالِينَ

     qāla yā ʔiblīsu mā manaʕaka ʔan tasjuda limā ḵalaqtu bi-yadayya ʔa-stakbarta ʔam kunta mina l-ʕālīna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to defend, to protect
3. (Modern Standard Arabic) to forbid, to prohibit, to ban

• Egyptian Arabic: منع (manaʕ)
• Maltese: mana’
• South Levantine Arabic: منع (manaʕ)

From Arabic مَنَعَ (manaʕa).

• IPA^(key): /ma.naʕ/, [ˈmænæʕ]

منع • (manaʕ) I (non-past يمنع (yimnaʕ))

1. (transitive) to prevent, to obstruct, to block

From Arabic مَنْع (manʕ).

• IPA^(key): /manʕ/, [ˈmænʕ]

منع • (manʕ) m

1. obstruct, pervention, prohibition

From Arabic مَنْع (manʕ).

منع • (men)

1. preventing, hindering
2. forbidding, prohibition

• Turkish: men

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1235
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “men”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2006

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْع (manʕ).

Readings
Classical reading?	man'
Dari reading?	man'
Iranian reading?	man'
Tajik reading?	manʾ

منع • (man')

1. prevention

   منع رفت و آمد ― man-e raft o âmad ― curfew

منع • (man')

1. prohibited

• منع کردن (man' kardan)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “منع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): [mɐ˦.näː]

مَنَع • (manaʻ) (indeclinable, Gurmukhi spelling ਮਨ੍ਹਾ)

1. restricted, unallowed

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “منع”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਮਨ੍ਹਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

From Arabic مَنَعَ (manaʕa).

• IPA^(key): /ma.naʕ/, [ˈma.naʕ]

منع • (manaʕ) I (present بمنع (bimnaʕ), passive participle ممنوع (mamnūʕ))

1. to forbid

   Synonym: حرّم (ḥarram)

   Antonym: سمح (samaḥ)

2. to prevent

Borrowed from Classical Persian منع (man'), from Arabic مَنْع (manʕ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.nə(ʔ)/, /mə.nɑː/

مَنَع • (mana') (Hindi spelling मना)

1. prohibited, forbidden, not allowed

• “منع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “منع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.