Bucharest

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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):

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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, 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.

Derived terms

• Bucharester
• Bucharestian

Translations

capital city of Romania

Afrikaans: Boekarest Akan: Bukarest Albanian: Bukuresht m (indefinite), Bukureshti m (definite) Amharic: ቡካረስት (bukaräst) Arabic: بُوخَارِسْت f (būḵārest) Armenian: Բուխարեստ (hy) (Buxarest) Aromanian: Bucureshci Asturian: Bucarest (ast) Azerbaijani: Buxarest (az) Cyrillic: Бухарест (az) Belarusian: Бухарэ́ст m (Buxarést) Bengali: বুখারেস্ট (bn) (bukharesṭ) Bulgarian: Букуре́щ m (Bukuréšt) Burmese: ဗူးခရက် (bu:hka.rak) Catalan: Bucarest ? Chinese: Cantonese: 布加勒斯特 (bou3 gaa1 lak6 si1 dak6) Mandarin: 布加勒斯特 (zh) (Bùjiālèsītè) Chuvash: Бухарест (Buh̬arest) Crimean Tatar: Bükreş Czech: Bukurešť (cs) f Danish: Bukarest (da) n Dutch: Boekarest (nl) n Esperanto: Bukareŝto Estonian: Bukarest Farefare: Bukaresti, Bukaresta Finnish: Bukarest (fi) French: Bucarest (fr) f Georgian: ბუქარესტი (ka) (bukaresṭi) German: Bukarest (de) n Greek: Βουκουρέστι (el) f (Voukourésti) Hebrew: בּוּקָרֶשְׂט (he) f (bukarest) Hindi: बुखारेस्ट m (bukhāresṭ), बुख़ारेस्ट m (buxāresṭ), बुख़ारेस्त m (buxārest) Hungarian: Bukarest (hu) Icelandic: Búkarest ? Ido: Bucarest Indonesian: Bukares Irish: Búcairist f Italian: Bucarest (it) f Japanese: ブカレスト (ja) (Bukaresuto) Javanese: Bukarès Kazakh: Бухарест (Buxarest) Khmer: ប៊ុយការ៉េស (km) (buykaareeh) Korean: 부쿠레슈티 (ko) (Bukuresyuti), 부꾸레슈띠 (ko) (Bukkuresyutti) (North Korea) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بوخارێست (buxarêst) Northern Kurdish: Bûkareşt (ku) Kumyk: Бюкреш (Bükreş) Kyrgyz: Бухарест (Buharest) Lao: ບູກາເຣດ (bū kā rēt), ບູກາເຮດ (bū kā hēt) Latin: Bucaresta f Latvian: Bukareste f Lithuanian: Bukareštas m Macedonian: Букурешт (mk) m (Bukurešt) Malay: Bucharest Maltese: Bukarest f Mongolian: Cyrillic: Бухарест (Buxarest) Nogai: Буькиреш (Bükireş) Norwegian: Bokmål: Bukarest, Bucureşti Nynorsk: Bukarest, Bucureşti Occitan: Bucarèst ? Ottoman Turkish: بكرش (Bükreş) Pashto: بوخارست m (Buxārest) Persian: بخارست (Boxârest) Polish: Bukareszt (pl) m Portuguese: Bucareste (pt) f Romani: Bukureshti ? Romanian: București (ro) m Cyrillic: Букурешть m (București) Romansch: Bucaresta Russian: Бухаре́ст (ru) m (Buxarést) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Бу̏курешт m Roman: Bȕkurešt (sh) m Sicilian: Bucarest ? Slovak: Bukurešť f Slovene: Bukaréšta (sl) f Spanish: Bucarest (es) ? Swedish: Bukarest (sv) n Tagalog: Bucharest Tajik: Бухарест (tg) (Buxarest) Tamil: புக்கரெஸ்ட் (pukkaresṭ) Tatar: Бүкрәш (Bükräş) Thai: บูคาเรสต์ (buu-kaa-rées) Tibetan: པུ་ཁ་རེ་སིད (pu kha re sid) Turkish: Bükreş (tr) Turkmen: Buharest Ukrainian: Бухаре́ст (uk) m (Buxarést) Urdu: بخارسٹ m (buxāresṭ), بخارست m (buxārest) Uyghur: بۇخارېست (buxarëst) Uzbek: Buxarest Vietnamese: Bu-ca-rét Yakut: Бухарест (Buqarest) Yiddish: בוקאַרעשט n (bukaresht)