different between bordel vs borrel

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

• Dobler, belord, blored, bolder

Czech

Etymology

From French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bord?l]

Noun

bordel m

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

Declension

Synonyms

• (brothel): See also nev?stinec
• (mess): See also nepo?ádek

Derived terms

• bordel na kole?kách

Further reading

• bordel in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• bordel in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?rd?l/, [b???d??l?]

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

Inflection

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): /b??.d?l/

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 hell! (UK), Christ almighty!

Derived terms

• bordel de merde

Descendants

Further reading

• “bordel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo??d?w/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bu??ð??/
• Hyphenation: bor?del
• (Brazil) Rhymes: -?w
• (Portugal) Rhymes: -??

Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)

1. brothel

Romanian

Etymology

From French bordel

Noun

bordel n (plural bordeluri)

1. bordello, brothel

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Noun

bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. brothel

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b???l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b???l/, /?b???l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French burel (“a kind of coarse woollen cloth”). Doublet of burel and bureau.

Alternative forms

• burrel

Noun

borrel (countable and uncountable, plural borrels)

1. (obsolete) Coarse woollen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.

   • This is to seye, if I be gay, sire shrewe,

     I wol renne out, my borel for to shewe.

2. A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.

Etymology 2

Compare Old French burel (“reddish”) or French beurré (“butter pear”).

Noun

borrel (plural borrels)

1. A sort of pear with a smooth soft pulp; the red butter pear.

Etymology 3

Probably from borrel.

Adjective

borrel (comparative more borrel, superlative most borrel)

1. (obsolete) ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity, a mean fellow.

   • Siker thou speak'st like a lewd sorrel,

     Of heaven, to deemen so:

     Howbe I am but rude and borrel,

     Yet nearer ways I know.

   • But sires, by cause I am a burel man,

     At my my bigynnyng first I yow biseche,

     Have me excused of my rude speche.

   • Religioun hath take up al the corn

     Of tredyng, and we borel men been shrympes.

Anagrams

• Lorber

Dutch

Etymology

Diminutive of Middle Dutch borre, borne (“well, drinkwater”). Compare bron (“well”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.r?l/
• Hyphenation: bor?rel

Noun

borrel m (plural borrels, diminutive borreltje n)

1. a shot of an alcoholic drink such as rum or gin; a tot
2. an informal, often impromptu reception or meetup, typically involving alcoholic drinks

Derived terms

• avondborrel
• borrelen
• borrelnoot
• vrijdagmiddagborrel