Buda
//ˈbuːdə// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 The historical capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, and one of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest. historical
- 2 A hamlet in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
- 3 A city in Hays County, Texas, United States.
- 4 The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the western side of the Danube.
"On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest."
- 5 A neighborhood and island of Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium.
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- 6 A commune and village in Călărași district, Moldova.
- 7 A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
- 8 A commune and village in Buzău County, Romania.
- 9 a large number of villages in Romania.
- 10 A left tributary of the Argeș River, Romania.
- 11 A tributary of the Șoimeni River, Cluj County, Romania.
- 12 A tributary of the Cernu River, Bacău County, Romania.
- 13 A village in Novoselytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.
- 14 A village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
- 15 An unincorporated community in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.
Example
More examples"The Turks captured Buda by deception."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Hungarian Buda, probably borrowed from a Slavic personal name, though an alternative theory deriving the term from Proto-Slavic *voda (“water”) as a translation of Latin Aquincum, via aqua (“water”), is also popular. The folk etymology connecting the word to Bleda, the brother of Attila the Hun, is historically implausible.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hungarian Buda
Etymology 3
From Spanish viuda (“widow”).
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