Bucha

See also: bucha and bûcha

English

Bucha Raion

Etymology 1

From Ukrainian Бу́ча (Búča).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːt͡ʃə/

Proper noun

Bucha

1. A city, the administrative centre of Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
2. A district, a raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Seat: Bucha.
3. A river in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Translations

city in Ukraine

• Arabic: بُوتْشَا (būtšā)
• Armenian: Բուչա (Bučʻa)
• Belarusian: Бу́ча f (Búča)
• Bokmål: Butsja
• Bulgarian: Буча (Buča)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布恰 (Bùqià)

• Czech: Buča f
• Dutch: Boetsja n
• Finnish: Butša
• French: Boutcha (fr) f
• Georgian: ბუჩა (buča)
• German: Butscha (de) n
• Greek: Μπούτσα (el) (Boútsa)
• Hebrew: בּ֫וּצָ'ה
• Hungarian: Bucsa (hu)
• Italian: Buča
• Japanese: ブーチャ (Būcha)
• Korean: 부차 (ko) (Bucha)
• Macedonian: Буча (Buča)
• Marathi: बूचा (būcā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Butsja

• Polish: Bucza f
• Portuguese: Bucha
• Romanian: Bucea
• Russian: Бу́ча (ru) f (Búča)
• Serbo-Croatian: Buča (sh)
• Slovak: Buča
• Slovene: Buča (sl)
• Spanish: Bucha
• Swedish: Butja
• Turkish: Buça
• Ukrainian: Бу́ча (uk) f (Búča)

Etymology 2

From German Bucha.

Proper noun

Bucha (countable and uncountable, plural Buchas)

1. A surname from German.
2. A village in Burgenlandkreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
3. A village in Saale-Orla-Kreis district, Thuringia, Germany.
4. A village in Saale-Holzland-Kreis district, Thuringia, Germany.

Etymology 3

From Urdu بُچّہ.

Proper noun

Bucha (plural Buchas)

1. A Pakistani surname from Urdu.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bucha is the 80131^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 237 individuals. Bucha is most common among White (92.83%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bucha”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 243.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian Буча (Buča).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.t͡ʃɐ/

• Homophone: bucha (Portugal, dialectal)
• Hyphenation: Bu‧cha

Proper noun

Bucha

1. Bucha (a city, the administrative centre of Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine)
2. Bucha (a district, a raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine; seat: Bucha)

Usage notes

Bucha is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuxa]

Proper noun

Bucha m pers (female equivalent Buchová)

1. a male surname

Further reading

• “Bucha”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024