English

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.

Czech

Etymology

French bordel

Noun

bordel m

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

Declension

Danish

Etymology

From French bordel ‎(“brothel”). Compare German Bordell and Swedish bordell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

Inflection

Synonyms

• horehus
• massageklinik

External links

• bordel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

Old French bordel ‎(“small house”), diminutive of bord, Medieval Latin bordellum, from a Old Frankish *bord ‎(“board”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ.dɛl/

Noun

bordel m ‎(plural bordels)

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

Synonyms

• maison close
• bazar

Interjection

bordel

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From French bordel ‎(“brothel”), from Old French bordel ‎(“small house”), diminutive of bord, from Medieval Latin bordellum, from Old Frankish *bord ‎(“board”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą ‎(“board, table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥dʰ-o- ‎(“board”), suffixed zero-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-edʰ- ‎(“to cut”), suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‎(“to carve, cut, split, rub”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)

1. brothel

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

French bordel

Noun

bòrdel m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)

1. brothel

Declension