bordel

English

Etymology

From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (brothel).

Noun

bordel (plural bordels)

  1. (now rare) A brothel.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 470:
      Appropriately enough she had given him a rendezvous (for the marriage) at the old Sphinx, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, where the respectable exterior – a family café, where families up from the country came to eat an ice and wat for their train – masked a charming bordel with a high gallery and several spotless cubicles.

Anagrams


Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (brothel).

Noun

bordel m

  1. (vulgar) brothel, whorehouse
  2. (slang) fuck-up (big mistake)
  3. (vulgar) mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)

Declension

Synonyms

Further reading

  • bordel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bordel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (brothel).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

  1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

Inflection

Synonyms

Further reading


French

Etymology

From Middle French bordel, from Old French bordel, from Medieval Latin bordellum (brothel, small hut).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔʁ.dɛl/
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Noun

bordel m (plural bordels)

  1. (informal) brothel
  2. (slang) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (especially US)

Synonyms

Interjection

bordel

  1. (vulgar, slang) bloody hell! (UK), Christ almighty!

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: bordel
  • Albanian: bordel
  • Armenian: բորդել (bordel)
  • Czech: bordel
  • Bulgarian: борде́й (bordéj)
  • Danish: bordel
  • Georgian: ბორდელი (bordeli)
  • German: Bordell
  • German Low German: Bordell
  • Indonesian: bordil
  • Kazakh: борде́ль (bordélʹ)
  • Kyrgyz: борде́ль (bordélʹ)
  • Latvian: bordelis

Further reading


Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (brothel).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /boɾˈdɛw/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /buɾˈðɛɫ/
  • Hyphenation: bor‧del
  • Rhymes: -ɛw

Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)

  1. brothel

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (brothel).

Noun

bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)

  1. brothel

Declension

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