English

Verb

forban ‎(third-person singular simple present forbans, present participle forbanning, simple past and past participle forbanned)

1. (transitive) To exile; banish.
   • 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 Old French forbenir ‎(“to banish, to exile”), from Frankish furbannjan, *firbannjan ‎(“to ban, banish”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + Proto-Germanic *bannijaną ‎(“to request, damn, curse”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhā- ‎(“to say, pronounce”). Cognate with Dutch verbannen ‎(“to outcast, banish, exile”), German verbannen ‎(“to banish, exile”), Norwegian forbanne ‎(“to curse”). More at for-, ban.

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

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

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