București
Romanian
Alternative forms
- Букурешть (București) (post-1930s Cyrillic form)
Etymology
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”), either of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Albanian or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dacian origin, but it may alternatively 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
Proper noun
București m (definite nominative and accusative Bucureștiul, definite genitive and dative Bucureștiului, vocative Bucureștiule)
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- Romanian terms suffixed with -ești
- Romanian patronymics
- Romanian terms derived from Albanian
- Romanian terms derived from Dacian
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
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- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
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