Bucharest
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian Бухаре́ст (Buxarést), from Romanian București, from Bucur (personal name) + -ești (patronymic, personal name suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun[edit]
Bucharest
- The capital city of Romania.
- The capital and largest city of Ilfov, Romania
- (metonymically) 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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Translations[edit]
capital city of Romania
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