brothel

Etymology 1
Short for, from + , influenced by. For more on, see below.

Noun

 * 1) A house of prostitution.

Synonyms


See also Thesaurus:brothel

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: shtëpi publike, bordello,
 * Arabic: بَيْت دَعَارَة, مَبْغًى, كَرْخَانَة, بَيْت التَّسَامُح
 * Armenian:, հասարակաց տուն, ,
 * Azerbaijani: fahişəxana, əxlaqsızlıq yuvası, qəhbəxana
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: бардэ́ль, публі́чны дом, дом цярпі́масці
 * Bengali: বেশ্যালয়
 * Bulgarian:, , публи́чен дом
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: bordel,
 * Daur: яус
 * Dutch:, , hoerhuis
 * Esperanto: malĉastejo
 * Estonian:, lõbumaja
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Galician:, burdallo,
 * Georgian: საროსკიპო, ბორდელი
 * German:, , Hurenhaus,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: πορνοβοσκεῖον, πορνεῖον, χαμαιτυπεῖον
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, वेश्यालय,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic: hóruhús, pútnahús, vændishús
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: bardakka
 * Italian:, , casa d'appuntamenti, , lupanare, casa chiusa, casa di tolleranza
 * Japanese:, , 娼館, 女郎屋, , 遊女屋,
 * Kazakh: жезөкшелер үйі
 * Khmer: ពេស្យាស្ថាន, រោងស្រី, រតិគ្រឹះ
 * Korean:, 갈보집, 매춘굴(賣春窟), 매춘소
 * Kyrgyz: бордель
 * Lao: ໂຮງໂສເພນີ
 * Latin: lupānar, fornix
 * Latvian: bordelis
 * Lithuanian: bordelis, viešnamis
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Bordell, Horenhuus
 * Macedonian: ја́вна ку́ќа, бо́рдел, курва́рница, куплера́ј
 * Malay: rumah pelacuran
 * Maltese: burdell
 * Maori: whare kairau
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: янхны газар, эмсийн хүрээлэн, янхны гэр
 * Nahuatl: ahuiyanicalli
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bordell, horehus
 * Nynorsk: bordell, horehus
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: блѫдилище, цѧтоимьство
 * Old English: forliġerhūs, scandhūs
 * Persian: فاحشه‌خانه, جنده‌خانه, روسپی‌خانه,  قحبه‌خانه
 * Plautdietsch: Huarenhus
 * Polish:, , , , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ; ,  ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Romansch: burdel
 * Russian:, , , ,  ,
 * Sanskrit:, कुट्टिनी-गृह, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: taigh-siùrsachd, taigh-strìopachais
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: блу́дилиште, бо̀рдел, бурдељ, јавна кућа, куплѐра̄ј
 * Roman:, , burdelj, javna kuća,
 * Slovak: bordel, verejný dom, nevestinec
 * Slovene:, javna hiša
 * Spanish:, , , , , , ,
 * Swahili: danguro, madanguro, madangro, dangro
 * Swedish:, , horhus
 * Tajik: фоҳишахона
 * Thai:, โรงหญิงโสเภณี, ซ่องโสเภณี
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: bordel
 * Ukrainian: борде́ль, буди́нок розпу́сти, публі́чний буди́нок, дім розпу́сти
 * Uyghur: پاھىشىخانا, پاھىشخانا
 * Uzbek:, bordel, islavotxona
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * West Frisian: huorrehûs
 * Yiddish: שאַנדהויז

Etymology 2
,, , (compare also 🇨🇬), apparently from an unrecorded , related to 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; both ultimately from.

The expected modern English form would be (see ); the failure of the change from  to  may be because of the intervening schwa in the word's uninflected forms, influence from the verb, or most likely, a dialectal development (compare  besides ).

Noun

 * 1)  A wretch; a depraved or lewd person.