botel

Blend of boat +‎ hotel.

botel (plural botels)

1. a floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel

• boatel

• motel

• houseboat

• Bolte, betol, blote

From English bottle.

botel

1. bottle

Borrowed from English bottle.

botel f (plural botellow)

1. bottle

Borrowed from English botel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbotɛl]

botel m inan

1. botel

• “botel”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “botel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “botel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Blend of boot (“boat”) +‎ hotel (“hotel”). Attested from the late 1950s onwards.^[1]

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botel n (plural botels, diminutive botelletje n)

1. botel (floating hotel)

• botel on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English botel.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbotɛl/ [ˈbo.t̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -otɛl
• Syllabification: bo‧tel

botèl (plural botel-botel)

1. (tourism) botel: a floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel

   Synonym: hotel perahu

• “botel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈbutəl/

Borrowed from Old French boteille, botele.

botel (plural boteles)

1. bottle

• English: bottle

• “botel, n.¹”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Old French botel.

botel (plural boteles)

1. bundle
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciples Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio 107, verso:

     Al thogh it be nat worth a botel hey.

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• English: bottle (obsolete)

• “botel, n.²”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English botl, boþl, from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *bōþlą.

botel (plural boteles)

1. house, dwelling

• English: bottle (dialectal)

• “botel, n.³”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔtɛl/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔtal/

botel

1. soft mutation of potel