bordel

From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello.

bordel (plural bordels)

1. (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.

• Dobler, belord, blored, bolder

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbordɛl]

bordel m inan

1. (vulgar) brothel, whorehouse

   Synonym: nevěstinec

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

   Synonym: nepořádek

• “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

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

• horehus
• massageklinik

• bordel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ.dɛl/

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bordel m (plural bordels)

1. (informal) brothel

   Synonym: maison close

   • 1958, Georges Brassens, “Le Pornographe”:

     S'il vous plaît de chanter les fleurs / Qu'elles poussent au moins rue Blondel / Dans un bordel

     If 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”.]

2. (colloquial) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (US)

   Synonym: bazar

   C'est quoi ce bordel ? ― What the hell's this mess?

bordel

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

• bordel de merde

• “bordel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).^[1]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: bor‧del

bordel m (plural bordéis)

1. brothel

Borrowed from French bordel.

bordel n (plural bordeluri)

1. bordello, brothel

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

bòrdel m inan (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)

1. brothel

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔrdel]

bordel m inan

1. brothel
2. mess, disorder

• “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

Borrowed from German Bordell.

• IPA^(key): /bɔʀˈdɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: bor‧del
• Syllabification: bor‧del

bordel m inan (related adjective bordelowy)

1. brothel

   Synonym: kurwarnja

• “bordel” in Soblex