bordel
English
Etymology
From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello.
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:
Anagrams
- Dobler, belord, blored, bolder
Czech
Etymology
From French bordel (“brothel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbordɛl]
Noun
bordel m
- (vulgar) brothel, whorehouse
- Synonym: nevěstinec
- (slang) fuck-up (big mistake)
- (vulgar) mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
- Synonym: nepořádek
Declension
Declension of bordel
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bordel | bordely |
genitive | bordelu | bordelů |
dative | bordelu | bordelům |
accusative | bordel | bordely |
vocative | bordele | bordely |
locative | bordelu | bordelech |
instrumental | bordelem | bordely |
Derived terms
- bordel na kolečkách
Further reading
- bordel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- bordel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- bordel in Internetová jazyková příručka
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]
Noun
bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)
- bordello, brothel, whorehouse
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
Further reading
bordel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
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)
- (informal) brothel
- (slang) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (especially US)
Synonyms
- maison close
- bazar
Interjection
bordel
- (vulgar, slang) bloody hell! (UK), Christ almighty!
Derived terms
- bordel de merde
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
- → Hungarian: bordély
- → Indonesian: bordil
- → Kazakh: борде́ль (bordél)
- → Kyrgyz: борде́ль (bordélʹ)
- → Latvian: bordelis
- → Lithuanian: bordelis
- → Norwegian: bordell
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: bordell
- → Portuguese: bordel
- → Romanian: bordel
- → Romansch: burdel
- → Russian: борде́ль (bordélʹ)
- → Serbo-Croatian: bordel
- → Slovak: bordel
- → Swedish: bordell
- → Turkmen: bordel
- → Ukrainian: борде́ль (bordélʹ)
- → Uzbek: bordel
Further reading
- “bordel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /boʁˈdɛw/ [boɦˈdɛʊ̯]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /boɾˈdɛw/ [boɾˈdɛʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /boʁˈdɛw/ [boʁˈdɛʊ̯]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /boɻˈdɛw/ [boɻˈdɛʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /buɾˈdɛl/ [buɾˈðɛɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
- Hyphenation: bor‧del
Noun
bordel m (plural bordéis)
- brothel
References
- “bordel” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From French bordel.
Noun
bordel n (plural bordeluri)
- bordello, brothel
Declension
Declension of bordel
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bordel | bordelul | (niște) bordeluri | bordelurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) bordel | bordelului | (unor) bordeluri | bordelurilor |
vocative | bordelule | bordelurilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).
Noun
bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)
- brothel
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 |
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbordel]
Noun
bordel m (genitive singular bordelu, nominative plural bordely, genitive plural bordelov)
- brothel
References
- bordel in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk