Bucharest
English
Etymology
Anglicization of Romanian București, from Bucur (personal name) + -ești (patronymic, personal name suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/
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Proper noun
Bucharest
- The capital city of Romania.
- (metonymically) The Romanian government.
- 2015, Gross, Stephen, 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.
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Derived terms
- Bucharester
- Bucharestian
Translations
the capital of Romania
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