different between brothel vs bordel

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b????l/, /?b??ð?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b????l/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b????l/, /?b??ð?l/
• Rhymes: -???l, -?ð?l
• Hyphenation: broth?el

Etymology 1

Short for brothel-house (“house of prostitution”), from brothel (“a wretch; scoundrel; lecher; harlot; prostitute”) + house, influenced by bordel. For more on brothel (“a wretch”), see below.

Noun

brothel (plural brothels)

1. A house of prostitution.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:brothel

Derived terms

• brothel-keeper, brothel keeper, brothelkeeper
• brothel-keeping, brothel keeping, brothelkeeping

Translations

See also

• escort agency
• red-light district
• prostitute

Etymology 2

Middle English brothel, brodel, brodelle, brethel (“a wretch, a depraved man or woman”) (compare also Middle English bretheling (“a wretch”)), apparently from an unrecorded Old English *br?oþel (“degenerative, corruptive”), related to Old English ?br?oþan (“to unsettle, degrade, ruin, frustrate, degenerate, deteriorate, fall away”); Old English ?broþen (“degenerate, base, trifling”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *breuþan? (“to fall apart; crumble”).

Noun

brothel (plural brothels)

1. (obsolete) A wretch; a depraved or lewd person.

Anagrams

• Holbert, blother

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