bordel
English
Etymology
From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”).
Noun
bordel (plural bordels)
- (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.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 470:
Czech
Noun
bordel m
- (vulgar) brothel, whorehouse
- (slang) fuck-up (big mistake)
- (vulgar) mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
Declension
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bordel | bordely |
genitive | bordelu | bordelů |
dative | bordelu | bordelům |
accusative | bordel | bordely |
vocative | bordele | bordely |
locative | bordelu | bordelech |
instrumental | bordelem | bordely |
Synonyms
- (brothel): See also nevěstinec
- (mess): See also nepořádek
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]
Inflection
Declension of bordel
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bordel | bordellet | bordeller | bordellerne |
genitive | bordels | bordellets | bordellers | bordellernes |
Synonyms
- horehus
- massageklinik
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)
Synonyms
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
- “bordel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Serbo-Croatian
Declension
Declension of bordel
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bòrdel | bordeli |
genitive | bordèla | bordela |
dative | bordelu | bordelima |
accusative | bordel | bordele |
vocative | bordele | bordeli |
locative | bordelu | bordelima |
instrumental | bordelom | bordelima |
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