bordel

English

Etymology

From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello.

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”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbordɛl]

Noun

bordel m

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

Declension
Declension of bordel (hard masculine inanimate)
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

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)

  1. 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

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
    • 1958, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Le Pornographe”:
      S'il vous plaît de chanter les fleurs / Qu'elles poussent au moins rue Blondel / Dans un bordel
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. (slang) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (especially US)

Synonyms

Interjection

bordel

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

Derived terms

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

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)

  1. brothel

References
  1. “bordel” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French bordel.

Noun

bordel n (plural bordeluri)

  1. 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)

  1. 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 inan (genitive singular bordelu, nominative plural bordely, genitive plural bordelov)

  1. brothel

References
  • bordel in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
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