Bucharest

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Бухаре́ст (Buxarést), from Romanian București, from Bucur (personal name) + -ești (patronymic, personal name suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

Bucharest

  2. The capital city of Romania.
  3. The capital and largest city of Ilfov County, Romania.
  4. (metonymic) The Romanian government.
    • 2015, Stephen Gross, chapter 5, in Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945‎[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208:
      In Romania the acrimonious deliberations over the commercial treaty with Germany prevented Bucharest from considering official participation at Leipzig before 1935.

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