bucura
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bucura¹
Where it comes from
* Possibly borrowed from Albanian bukur (“nice, beautiful”), but semantic difficulties exist.
* Alternatively, a substrate Dacian or other Paleo-Balkanic word, akin to Albanian.
* Another possible theory suggests a Vulgar Latin root *voculāre (“to call, yell”), from Latin vōcula, from vōx (“voice”), with meaning possibly confused with or influenced by *bacchulāre, from bacchor (“celebrate”), and that the Albanian word simply coincides with the Romanian one.
* It is also, contrary to folk etymology, probably not related to the name of the legendary shepherd Bucur, who according to popular belief gave his name to the capital city of Romania, București; the name itself may be a remnant of a lost pastoral word originally based on Latin buculus (“young bull, ox, steer”) (compare Old French bugle, French beugler, also Dalmatian buc).
verb a bucura 1st conjugation · bucură · bucurat · bucure · a bucura · bucurând
- to delight, to cheer, to indulge Cred că aș avea ceva care te va bucura.
- be / become glad or happy
Bucura²
proper noun
- a village in Vânju Mare, Mehedinți County, Romania
In English
Talk about this word "bucura." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/bucura. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bucura. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/bucura "bucura." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/bucura.Cite this
@misc{bucura_2026,
title = {bucura},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/bucura},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
