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/

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Proper noun

Bucharest

1. The capital city of Romania.
2. The capital and largest city of Ilfov, Romania
3. (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.

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
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• Navajo: Bokowesh
• 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)
• 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)