love hotel

love hotel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), from English love + hotel, probably after the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

Noun

love hotel (plural love hotels)

1. A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.

Synonyms

• autohotel, no-tell motel

Translations

short-stay hotel for sex

Chinese: Mandarin: 情侶酒店, 情侣酒店 (qínglǚ jiǔdiàn), 愛情旅館, 爱情旅馆 (àiqíng lǚguǎn), 情人旅館, 情人旅馆 (qíngrén lǚguǎn), 鐘點房, 钟点房 (zhōngdiǎnfáng) (hourly rate hotel) Finnish: tuntihotelli French: love hotel m German: Love Hotel n Japanese: ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), ラブホ (rabuho), 連れ込み宿 (つれこみやど, tsurekomiyado) (dated), ブティックホテル (butikku hoteru) (industry euphemism), ファッションホテル (fasshon hoteru) (industry euphemism)

Korean: 러브호텔 (ko) (reobeuhotel) Portuguese: motel (pt) m Russian: любо́вный оте́ль m (ljubóvnyj otɛ́lʹ), мини-гости́ница f (mini-gostínica), гости́ница с почасово́й опла́той f (gostínica s počasovój oplátoj), гости́ница на час f (gostínica na čas) Spanish: albergue transitorio (es) m, telo (es) m Swedish: kärlekshotell n Thai: เลิฟโฮเต็ล (lə̂əf-hoo-dtel)