Budapest

See also: Budapèst, Búdapest, and Budapešť

English

The Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest

Alternative forms

• Buda-Pest (archaic)

Etymology

From Hungarian Budapest, from Buda +‎ Pest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːdəpɛst/, /ˌbuːdəˈpɛst/, /ˈbʊdəpɛst/, /ˈbjuːdəpɛst/, /ˌbjuːdəˈpɛst/.
  • Note that, although -s- is pronounced /ʃ/ in Hungarian, the standard English pronunciation is /s/.

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Budapest

2. The capital and the most populous city of Hungary.
3. (metonymically) The Hungarian government.
   • 2016, Per Tiedtke, chapter 8, in Germany, Italy and the International Economy 1929–1936: Co-operation or Rivalries at Times of Crisis?‎^[1], Europe: Tectum Verlag, →ISBN, page 265:

     After information about the secret proceedings between Berlin and Budapest leaked, Rome approached Budapest to get details on the concessions granted with the envisaged German–Hungarian commercial contract.

Derived terms

• Budapester
• Budapestian

 

Translations

the capital city of Hungary

• Afrikaans: Boedapest
• Akan: Budapɛst
• Albanian: Budapesti (sq) m (definite), Budapest m (indefinite)
• Amharic: ቡዳፔስት (budapest)
• Arabic: بُدَابِسْت f (budābist), بُودَابِسْت f (būdābist)
• Armenian: Բուդապեշտ (hy) (Budapešt)
• Azerbaijani: Budapeşt (az)
• Belarusian: Будапе́шт m (Budapjéšt), Будапэ́шт m (Budapéšt)
• Bengali: বুদাপেস্ট (bn) (budapesṭ)
• Bulgarian: Будапе́ща f (Budapéšta)
• Burmese: ဗူးဒပက် (bu:da.pak)
• Catalan: Budapest
• Chechen: Будапешт (Budapešt)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 布達佩斯／布达佩斯 (bou³ daat⁶ pui³ si¹)

  Mandarin: 布達佩斯／布达佩斯 (zh) (Bùdápèisī)

• Czech: Budapešť (cs) f
• Danish: Budapest (da) n
• Dutch: Boedapest (nl) n
• Esperanto: Budapeŝto (eo)
• Estonian: Budapest (et)
• Finnish: Budapest (fi)
• French: Budapest (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: ბუდაპეშტი (ka) (budaṗešṭi)
• German: Budapest (de) n
• Greek: Βουδαπέστη (el) f (Voudapésti)
• Hebrew: בּוּדָפֶּשְׁט (he) f (búdapesht)
• Hindi: बुदापैश्त m (budāpaiśt), बुडापेस्ट m (buḍāpesṭ), बुदापेस्त m (budāpest)
• Hungarian: Budapest (hu)
• Icelandic: Búdapest
• Indonesian: Budapest
• Irish: Búdaipeist f
• Italian: Budapest (it) f
• Japanese: ブダペスト (ja) (Budapesuto)
• Kazakh: Будапешт (Budapeşt)
• Khmer: ប៊ុយដាប៉ែស (km) (buydaapaeh)
• Korean: 부다페스트 (ko) (Budapeseuteu), 부다뻬슈뜨 (ko) (Budappesyutteu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Budapeşt (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Будапешт (Budapeşt)
• Lao: ບູດາເປດ (bū dā pēt)
• Latin: Budapestinum n, Aquincum n
• Latvian: Budapešta f
• Lithuanian: Budapeštas m
• Macedonian: Бу́димпешта (mk) f (Búdimpešta)
• Malay: Budapest
• Maltese: Budapest
• Marathi: बुडापेस्ट n (buḍāpesṭa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Будапешт (Budapešt)

• Navajo: Bodobesh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Budapest (no)

  Nynorsk: Budapest

• Ottoman Turkish: بوده پشته (Buda Peşte), بوده (Bude), بودن (Budin)
• Pashto: بوداپست m (budāpést)
• Persian: بوداپست (budâpest)
• Polish: Budapeszt (pl) m
• Portuguese: Budapeste (pt)
• Romanian: Budapesta (ro) f
• Russian: Будапе́шт (ru) m (Budapéšt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бу̀димпешта f

  Roman: Bùdimpešta (sh) f

• Slovak: Budapešť (sk) f
• Slovene: Búdimpešta (sl) f
• Spanish: Budapest (es) m
• Swedish: Budapest (sv) n
• Tagalog: Budapest
• Tajik: Будапешт (Budapešt)
• Tamil: புடாபெசுட்டு (puṭāpecuṭṭu)
• Tatar: Будапешт (Budapeşt)
• Thai: บูดาเปสต์ (buu-daa-bpées)
• Tibetan: བུ་ད་ཕེ་སིད (bu da phe sid)
• Turkish: Budapeşte (tr)
• Turkmen: Budapeşt
• Ukrainian: Будапе́шт (uk) m (Budapéšt)
• Urdu: بوداپست m (budāpest)
• Uyghur: بۇداپېشت (budapësht)
• Uzbek: Budapesht
• Vietnamese: Bu-đa-pét
• Yiddish: בודאַפּעשט n (budapesht)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bu.ðəˈpɛst]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) unknown

Proper noun

Budapest m

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

Danish

Proper noun

Budapest n

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈb̥ud̥ɑpest/, [ˈb̥ud̥ɑpˑest]

Proper noun

Budapest

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.da.pɛst/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Budapest f

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuːdaˌpɛst]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Budapest n (proper noun, genitive Budapests or (optionally with an article) Budapest)

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

Hungarian

Budapest

Etymology

From Buda +‎ Pest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbudɒpɛʃt]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bu‧da‧pest
• Rhymes: -ɛʃt

Proper noun

Budapest

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

   Synonym: (historical) Pest-Buda

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Budapest	—
accusative	Budapestet	—
dative	Budapestnek	—
instrumental	Budapesttel	—
causal-final	Budapestért	—
translative	Budapestté	—
terminative	Budapestig	—
essive-formal	Budapestként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Budapestben	—
superessive	Budapesten	—
adessive	Budapestnél	—
illative	Budapestbe	—
sublative	Budapestre	—
allative	Budapesthez	—
elative	Budapestből	—
delative	Budapestről	—
ablative	Budapesttől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Budapesté	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Budapestéi	—

Possessive forms of Budapest
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Budapestem	—
2nd person sing.	Budapested	—
3rd person sing.	Budapestje	—
1st person plural	Budapestünk	—
2nd person plural	Budapestetek	—
3rd person plural	Budapestjük	—

Derived terms

• Bp. (abbreviation)
• budapesti

 

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.da.pest/
• Rhymes: -udapest
• Hyphenation: Bù‧da‧pest

Proper noun

Budapest f

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /budaˈpest/ [bu.ð̞aˈpest̪]
• Rhymes: -est
• Syllabification: Bu‧da‧pest

Proper noun

Budapest m

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

Swedish

Proper noun

Budapest n (genitive Budapests)

1. Budapest (the capital city of Hungary)

Derived terms

• budapestbakelse (“Budapest pastry”)