București
Romanian
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Alternative forms
[edit]- Букурешть (București) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]From Bucur (a male given name) + -ești (patronymic or placename suffix). Bucur is the legendary shepherd who is said to have founded the city: his name is often considered to be related to bucurie (“joy”) and bucura (“to become glad”), from Albanian bukur.
Alternatively may be derived from a lost word in Romanian relating to pastoral life, ultimately linked to Latin būculus (“young bullock, steer”), diminutive of bōs (“ox, cow”). Compare Old French bugle, French beugler.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bu.kuˈreʃtʲ/
Audio (male voice): (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eʃtʲ
- Hyphenation: Bu‧cu‧rești
Proper noun
[edit]București m (definite nominative and accusative Bucureștiul, definite genitive and dative Bucureștiului, vocative Bucureștiule)
- Bucharest (the capital city of Romania)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | București | Bucureștiul |
| genitive-dative | București | Bucureștiului |
| vocative | Bucureștiule | |
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[edit]Categories:
- Romanian patronymics
- Romanian terms suffixed with -ești
- Romanian terms derived from Albanian
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Romanian/eʃtʲ
- Rhymes:Romanian/eʃtʲ/3 syllables
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- ro:Bucharest
- ro:Cities in Romania
- ro:National capitals
- ro:Places in Romania
- ro:Cities in Ilfov County, Romania
- ro:County capitals of Romania
- ro:Places in Ilfov County, Romania