"forbugan" meaning in All languages combined

See forbugan on Wiktionary

Verb [Old English]

IPA: /forˈbuː.ɡɑn/, [forˈbuː.ɣɑn]
Etymology: Equivalent to for- + būgan. Etymology templates: {{prefix|ang|for|būgan}} for- + būgan Head templates: {{ang-verb|forbūgan}} forbūgan Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|forbūgan<s2>}} Forms: forbūgan [canonical], strong [table-tags], forbūgan [infinitive], forbūgenne [infinitive], forbūge [first-person, present, singular], forbēag [first-person, past, singular], forbēah [first-person, past, singular], forbȳġst [present, second-person, singular], forbuge [past, second-person, singular], forbȳġþ [present, singular, third-person], forbēag [past, singular, third-person], forbēah [past, singular, third-person], forbūgaþ [plural, present], forbugon [past, plural], forbūge [present, singular], forbuge [past, singular], forbūgen [plural, present], forbugen [past, plural], forbūg [imperative, past, present, singular], forbūh [imperative, past, present, singular], forbūgaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], forbūgende [imperative, present], forbogen [imperative, past]
  1. to avoid, abstain
    Sense id: en-forbugan-ang-verb-4h1s7NtJ Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 22 18 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 16 23 18 21
  2. to get or stay out of the way of something
    Sense id: en-forbugan-ang-verb-tgCkCHn1 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 22 18 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 16 23 18 21
  3. to abstain
    Sense id: en-forbugan-ang-verb-7ufQrrTO Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 22 18 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 16 23 18 21
  4. to miss a meeting or an appointment
    Sense id: en-forbugan-ang-verb-qbYrAiu7 Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Old English terms prefixed with for-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 15 18 15 35 15 Disambiguation of Old English terms prefixed with for-: 15 18 15 37 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 22 18 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 16 23 18 21
  5. to shun, eschew
    Sense id: en-forbugan-ang-verb-xhtqGpfr Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 22 18 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 16 23 18 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: forbūgendlīċ (english: avoidable), forbūgendlīċe (english: avoidably), forbūgennes (english: avoidance, evasion) [feminine], unforbūgendlīċ (english: unavoidable, inevitable), unforbūgendlīċe (english: unavoidably, inevitably)
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "avoidable",
      "translation": "avoidable",
      "word": "forbūgendlīċ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "avoidably",
      "translation": "avoidably",
      "word": "forbūgendlīċe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "avoidance, evasion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "translation": "avoidance, evasion",
      "word": "forbūgennes"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "unavoidable, inevitable",
      "translation": "unavoidable, inevitable",
      "word": "unforbūgendlīċ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "unavoidably, inevitably",
      "translation": "unavoidably, inevitably",
      "word": "unforbūgendlīċe"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "lang_code": "enm",
      "word": "forbowen"
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Equivalent to for- + būgan.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "forbūgan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "II",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbēag",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbȳġst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbuge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbȳġþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "forbēag",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "past",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbugon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "forbuge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbugen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūg",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbogen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "forbūgan"
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      "expansion": "forbūgan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "forbūgan<s2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 22 18 23 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 16 23 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nĠelēaffulle lǣwede menn, þe on rihtum sinsċipe lybbað, āġifað þrītigḟealdne wǣstm gōdra weorca, ġif hī heora æw̄e æfter bōclīcum ġesetnyssum healdað, þæt is, þæt hī for bearnes ġestrēone, on alyfedum tīman, hǣmed begān, and bearneacniġende wīf and mōnaðsēoc forbūgan; and ðonne hēo leng tȳman ne mæġ,̇ ġeswican hī hǣmedes.",
          "translation": "Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "abstain",
          "abstain"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 16 23 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to get or stay out of the way of something"
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      "id": "en-forbugan-ang-verb-tgCkCHn1"
    },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 16 23 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to abstain"
      ],
      "id": "en-forbugan-ang-verb-7ufQrrTO",
      "links": [
        [
          "abstain",
          "abstain"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 18 15 35 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 18 15 37 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English terms prefixed with for-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "18 22 18 23 18",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "21 16 23 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to miss a meeting or an appointment"
      ],
      "id": "en-forbugan-ang-verb-qbYrAiu7",
      "links": [
        [
          "meeting",
          "meeting"
        ],
        [
          "appointment",
          "appointment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 22 18 23 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 16 23 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to shun, eschew"
      ],
      "id": "en-forbugan-ang-verb-xhtqGpfr",
      "links": [
        [
          "shun",
          "shun"
        ],
        [
          "eschew",
          "eschew"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/forˈbuː.ɡɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[forˈbuː.ɣɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forbugan"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Old English class 2 strong verbs",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms prefixed with for-",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "avoidable",
      "translation": "avoidable",
      "word": "forbūgendlīċ"
    },
    {
      "english": "avoidably",
      "translation": "avoidably",
      "word": "forbūgendlīċe"
    },
    {
      "english": "avoidance, evasion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "translation": "avoidance, evasion",
      "word": "forbūgennes"
    },
    {
      "english": "unavoidable, inevitable",
      "translation": "unavoidable, inevitable",
      "word": "unforbūgendlīċ"
    },
    {
      "english": "unavoidably, inevitably",
      "translation": "unavoidably, inevitably",
      "word": "unforbūgendlīċe"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "lang_code": "enm",
      "word": "forbowen"
    }
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Equivalent to for- + būgan.",
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      "form": "forbūgan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
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    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "II",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūge",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbēag",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbȳġst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbuge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbȳġþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbēag",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbugon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbuge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbugen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūg",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūh",
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        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbūgende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forbogen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "forbūgan<s2>"
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  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nĠelēaffulle lǣwede menn, þe on rihtum sinsċipe lybbað, āġifað þrītigḟealdne wǣstm gōdra weorca, ġif hī heora æw̄e æfter bōclīcum ġesetnyssum healdað, þæt is, þæt hī for bearnes ġestrēone, on alyfedum tīman, hǣmed begān, and bearneacniġende wīf and mōnaðsēoc forbūgan; and ðonne hēo leng tȳman ne mæġ,̇ ġeswican hī hǣmedes.",
          "translation": "Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.",
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        }
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        "to avoid, abstain"
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          "avoid",
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        [
          "abstain",
          "abstain"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to get or stay out of the way of something"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to abstain"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "abstain",
          "abstain"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to miss a meeting or an appointment"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meeting",
          "meeting"
        ],
        [
          "appointment",
          "appointment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to shun, eschew"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shun",
          "shun"
        ],
        [
          "eschew",
          "eschew"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/forˈbuː.ɡɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[forˈbuː.ɣɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forbugan"
}

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