Bucharest

Borrowed from Russian Бухаре́ст (Buxarést), from Romanian București, from Bucur (personal name) + -ești (patronymic, personal name suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/

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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, 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.