love hotel

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), from English love + hotel, probably after the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

Noun

love hotel (plural love hotels)

1. A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:love hotel

Translations

short-stay hotel for sex

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情侶酒店／情侣酒店 (qínglǚ jiǔdiàn), 愛情旅館／爱情旅馆 (àiqíng lǚguǎn), 情人旅館／情人旅馆 (qíngrén lǚguǎn), 鐘點房／钟点房 (zhōngdiǎnfáng) (hourly rate hotel)

• Dutch: shortstay m (Suriname)
• Finnish: tuntihotelli
• French: love hotel (fr) m
• German: Love Hotel n
• Japanese: ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), ラブホ (rabuho), 連れ込み宿 (つれこみやど, tsurekomiyado) (dated), ブティックホテル (butikku hoteru) (industry euphemism), ファッションホテル (fasshon hoteru) (industry euphemism)
• Korean: 러브호텔 (ko) (reobeuhotel)
• Portuguese: motel (pt) m
• Russian: любо́вный оте́ль m (ljubóvnyj otɛ́lʹ), мини-гости́ница f (mini-gostínica), гости́ница с почасово́й опла́той f (gostínica s počasovój oplátoj), гости́ница на час f (gostínica na čas)
• Spanish: albergue transitorio (es) m, (Argentina) telo (es) m
• Swedish: kärlekshotell n
• Thai: เลิฟโฮเต็ล (lə́əf-hoo-dtel)