Meaning of मनाई in English

Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
To declare prohibited; to forbid.
Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.
of Embargo
imp. of Forbid.
of Forbid
The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
Very black.
The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.
To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.