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men.

An act of prohibiting, forbidding

3 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɛn/
  1. An act of prohibiting, forbidding

  2. An act of preventing, hindering

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish منع (menʾ, “a preventing, hindering, hindrance, a forbidding, prohibition”), from Arabic مَنْع (manʕ, “prevention”), verbal noun of مَنَعَ (manaʕa, “to hinder, to prevent, to repel”).

pron/ˈmɛn/
  1. I, me

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I, me”).

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