# 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 (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 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

* Dobler, belord, blored, bolder

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbordɛl]

### Noun

bordel m inan
* (vulgar) brothel, whorehouse
    Synonym: nevěstinec
* (slang) fuck-up (big mistake)
* (vulgar) mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
    Synonym: nepořádek

#### Derived terms

* bordel na kolečkách

### Further reading

* “bordel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “bordel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “bordel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

### Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)
* bordello, brothel, whorehouse

#### Synonyms

* horehus
* massageklinik

#### Further reading

* bordel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bordel, from Old French bordel, from Medieval Latin bordellum (“brothel, small hut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔʁ.dɛl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bordel m (plural bordels)
* (informal) brothel
    Synonym: maison close
** 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 bordelIf you like to sing about flowers / At least let them be ones that grow on Rue Blondel / In a brothel[Fleur, like English flower, can mean “vulva”.]
* (colloquial) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (especially US)
    Synonym: bazar
    C’est quoi ce bordel ? ― What the hell's this mess?

### 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 (bordél)
* → 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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /boʁˈdɛw/ [boɦˈdɛʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /boʁˈdɛw/ [boɦˈdɛʊ̯]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /boɾˈdɛw/ [boɾˈdɛʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /boʁˈdɛw/ [boʁˈdɛʊ̯]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /boɻˈdɛw/ [boɻˈdɛʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /buɾˈdɛl/ [buɾˈðɛɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /buɾˈdɛl/ [buɾˈðɛɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /buɾˈdɛ.li/ [buɾˈðɛ.li]
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
* Hyphenation: bor‧del

### Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)
* brothel

### References

* ↑ “bordel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel.

### Noun

bordel n (plural bordeluri)
* bordello, brothel

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

### Noun

bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)
* brothel

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɔrdel]

### Noun

bordel m inan
* brothel
* mess, disorder

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “bordel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Upper Sorbian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Bordell.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔʀˈdɛl/
* Rhymes: -ɛl
* Hyphenation: bor‧del
* Syllabification: bor‧del

### Noun

bordel m inan (related adjective bordelowy)
* brothel
    Synonym: kurwarnja

#### Declension
### References

* “bordel” in Soblex