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Buda en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/ˈbuːdə/
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.
Meanings
(historical) 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.
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. 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times: