bordel

English

Etymology

From Old French bordel, diminutive of Late Latin borda.

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.

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Czech

Etymology

French bordel

Noun

bordel m

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

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

Inflection

    Inflection of bordel

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	bordel	bordellet	bordeller	bordellerne
genitive	bordels	bordellets	bordellers	bordellernes

Synonyms

• horehus
• massageklinik

External links

• Bordel on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Old French bordel (“small house”), diminutive of bord, Medieval Latin bordellum, possibly from a Germanic root.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /bɔʁ.dɛl/, X-SAMPA: /bOR.dEl/

Noun

bordel m (plural bordels)

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

Synonyms

• maison close

Interjection

bordel

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

French bordel

Noun

bordel m

1. brothel

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

French bordel

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