Bukhara

American  

[boo-kahr-uh, boo-, boo-khah-ruh] / bʊˈkɑr ə, bu-, buˈxɑ rə /

noun

1. a former state in SW Asia: now incorporated into Uzbekistan.

2. a city in SW Uzbekistan, W of Samarkand.

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Bukhara British  

/ bʊˈxɑːrə /

noun

1. a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)

2. a former emirate of central Asia: a powerful kingdom and centre of Islam; became a territory of the Soviet Union (1920) and was divided between the former Uzbek, Tajik, and Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republics

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Example Sentences

Chusovitina was born in the Uzbek city Bukhara.

From BBC

In one of the city’s more famous warrens of communal apartments, the Emir of Bukhara building, once a palatial residence built for a Central Asian vassal of the czar, Sonya Minayeva, an artist, has continued living much the same as she did before the pandemic.

From New York Times

By sunset we had a table on the terrace of a restaurant called Minzifa, overlooking the sun-bleached domes and rooftops of Bukhara.

From New York Times

The sites were extraordinary, but even more than Bukhara, Samarkand suffers from overdevelopment of its tourist attractions.

From New York Times

We slept for a few hours at Lyabi House Hotel, one of several bed-and-breakfasts in Bukhara housed in 19th-century Jewish merchants houses, and then headed for the Po-i-Kalon religious complex, the city’s architectural highlight.

From New York Times