Bucharest
/ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/
Bucharest proper noun: the capital city of Romania.
Proper noun
Bucharest
- The capital city of Romania.
- The capital and largest city of Ilfov County, Romania.
- The Romanian government.
- In Romania the acrimonious deliberations over the commercial treaty with Germany prevented Bucharest from considering official participation at Leipzig before 1935.2015, Stephen Gross, chapter 5, in Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208
Bucharest meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Bucharest in Hindi
- capital city of Romania
- बुख़ारेस्ट buxāresṭ
Bucharest in Tamil
- capital city of Romania
- புக்கரெஸ்ட் pukkaresṭ
Bucharest in Urdu
- capital city of Romania
- بخارسٹ buxāresṭ, بخارست buxārest
Bucharest in Bengali
- capital city of Romania
- বুখারেস্ট bukharesṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- Bucharest in Pashto
- بوخارست Buxārest
- Bucharest in Tagalog
- Bucharest
- Bucharest in Arabic
- بُوخَارِسْت būḵārest
- Bucharest in Malay
- Bucharest
- Bucharest in Indonesian
- Bukares
- Bucharest in Persian
- بخارست Boxârest
- Bucharest in Thai
- บูคาเรสต์ buu-kaa-rées
- Bucharest in Vietnamese
- Bu-ca-rét
- Bucharest in Myanmar
- ဗူးခရက် bu:hka.rak
Origin of Bucharest
Borrowed from Russian Бухаре́ст (Buxarést), from Romanian București, from Bucur (personal name) + -ești (patronymic, personal name suffix).
Words formed from Bucharest
Questions about Bucharest
- What does Bucharest mean?
- Bucharest means the capital city of Romania.
- What is Bucharest in Hindi?
- Bucharest in Hindi is बुख़ारेस्ट (buxāresṭ). See Bucharest meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Bucharest?
- Bucharest is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Bucharest?
- Bucharest is pronounced /ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/.
Words near Bucharest in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Bucharest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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