lederhosen vs shorts

lederhosen and shorts both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lederhosen	Yes	No	No	No
shorts	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shorts is a hypernym of lederhosen; that is, shorts is a word with a broader meaning than lederhosen:

lederhosen: leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria
shorts: (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee

Other hypernyms of lederhosen include short pants, trunks.

lederhosen (noun)	shorts (noun)
leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria	(used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee
	underpants worn by men