forban

pirate; rogue, scoundrel; an unscrupulous individual capable of any wrongdoing

Inherited from Middle French fourban, from Old French forsban, forban (“pirate, privateer, banishment”), deverbal of forbenir (“to banish, to exile”), from Frankish *frabannijan (“to ban, banish”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *bannijaną (“to request, damn, curse”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, pronounce”). Cognate with Dutch verbannen (“to outcast, banish, exile”), German verbannen (“to banish, exile”), Norwegian forbanne (“to curse”). More at for-, ban.