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Where does “Bucharest” come from?

Bucharest is the English name for Romania's capital, derived from Romanian Bucureşti, formed from the Romanian suffix -ești appended to an earlier root.

Ancestry of “Bucharest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1RussianБухаре́ст—
2RomanianBucureștiBucharest
3Romanian-eștiplural of -esc; Used with a stem to form the...
4Latin-ēscō—
5Proto-Italic*-ēskō—

Words derived from “Bucharest”

  • Bucharestian
  • 布加勒斯特
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