buda
/ˈbuːdə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.47 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
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A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
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a large number of villages in Romania.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Buda, -, *voda, Aquincum, viuda