red-light district

English

Two brothels in Amsterdam's red-light district.

Alternative forms

• red light district

Etymology

From red, light and district. Referring to the red lights that were used as signs for brothels.

Noun

red-light district (plural red-light districts)

1. A part of an urban area where prostitution and sex-oriented businesses are concentrated.

Descendants

• Canadian French: red light m
• → German: Rotlichtviertel (calque)
• → Chinese: 紅燈區／红灯区 (hóngdēngqū) (calque)

Translations

area of prostitution

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅燈區／红灯区 (zh) (hóngdēngqū), 風月區／风月区 (fēngyuèqū), 風化區／风化区 (fēnghuàqū)

• Dutch: rosse buurt f, rodelampjesbuurt f, hoerenbuurt (nl) f, tippelzone (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: ruĝluma areo
• Estonian: punaste laternate kvartal
• Finnish: punaisten lyhtyjen alue (fi)
• French: quartier chaud m, red light (fr) m, quartier des putes m
• German: Rotlichtbezirk (de) m, Straßenstrich (de) m, Rotlichtviertel (de) n
• Greek: συνοικία με οίκους ανοχής f (synoikía me oíkous anochís)
• Hungarian: vörös lámpás negyed, piros lámpás negyed
• Icelandic: vændishúshverfi n
• Indonesian: lokalisasi (id) (lit. "localization")
• Italian: quartiere a luci rossi m
• Japanese: 歓楽街 (ja) (かんらくがい, kanrakugai), 風俗街 (ふうぞくがい, fūzokugai)
• Korean: 홍등가(紅燈街) (ko) (hongdeungga)
• Macedonian: резил сокак m (rezil sokak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bordellkvarter n

• Polish: dzielnica czerwonych latarni (pl) f
• Portuguese: zona de meretrício f
• Russian: у́лица кра́сных фонаре́й f (úlica krásnyx fonaréj), кварта́л кра́сных фонаре́й m (kvartál krásnyx fonaréj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceàrn dearg m
• Spanish: zona roja f
• Swedish: bordellkvarter n
• Ukrainian: кварта́л черво́них ліхтарі́в m (kvartál červónyx lixtarív)
• Vietnamese: phố đèn đỏ (lit. "red light street")
• Welsh: ardal golau coch (cy) f