sex shop

See also: Sexshop and sex-shop

English

Noun

sex shop (plural sex shops)

1. A shop that sells sex toys, erotic lingerie, pornography etc.

Synonyms

• adult shop

Translations

shop that sells sexual merchandise

• Arabic: مَحَلّ اَلْجِنْس m (maḥall al-jins), سِيكْس شُوب m (siks šub)
• Belarusian: сэкс-шо́п m (seks-šóp)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性商店 (zh) (xìngshāngdiàn), 性用品商店 (zh) (xìngyòngpǐn shāngdiàn), 成人用品店 (zh) (chéngrén yòngpǐn diàn)

• Finnish: seksikauppa (fi)
• French: sex-shop (fr) m, boutique porno f, érothèque (fr)
• German: Sexshop (de) m
• Hindi: सेक्स दुकान (seks dukān), सेक्स शॉप (seks śŏp)
• Italian: sexy-shop m
• Japanese: セックスショップ (sekkusushoppu), ポルノショップ (porunoshoppu)
• Korean: 포르노가게 (poreunogage), 섹스샵 (sekseusyap), 성인용품점(成人用品店) (seong'inyongpumjeom)
• Maltese: ħanut tan-nejk m
• Polish: sex shop (pl) m
• Portuguese: sex shop (pt) m
• Russian: секс-шо́п (ru) m (seks-šóp)
• Spanish: sex shop m
• Swedish: sexbutik c
• Thai: ร้านค้าเพศ (ráan-káa pâyt)
• Ukrainian: секс-шо́п (uk) m (seks-šóp)
• Vietnamese: sex shop
• West Frisian: seksshop

Polish

Alternative forms

• sex-shop

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sex shop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛks.ʂɔp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛksʂɔp

Noun

sex shop m inan

1. sex shop

Declension

Declension of sex shop

	singular	plural
nominative	sex shop	sex shopy
genitive	sex shopu	sex shopów
dative	sex shopowi	sex shopom
accusative	sex shop	sex shopy
instrumental	sex shopem	sex shopami
locative	sex shopie	sex shopach
vocative	sex shopie	sex shopy

Further reading

• sex shop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sex shop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sex shop.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛks ˈʃɔp/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛks ˈʃɔp/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk ˈʃɔp/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ksɨ ˈʃɔ.pɨ/

Noun

sex shop m (plural sex shops)

1. sex shop (shop that sells sexual merchandise)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sex shop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseɡs ˈʃop/ [ˌseɣ̞s ˈʃop]
• Syllabification: sex shop

Noun

sex shop m (plural sex shops)

1. sex shop

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “sex shop”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014