Bukhara

[ boo-kahr-uh, boo-; Russian boo-khah-ruh ]

/ bʊˈkɑr ə, bu-; Russian buˈxɑ rə /

noun

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

a city in SW Uzbekistan, W of Samarkand.

Also Bokhara.

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Examples from the Web for bukhara

Bukhara is the remoter focus of all these routes, and also of the valley highways of the western Tian Shan.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
Sixty years ago there ruled in Bukhara a cruel Emir who took a delight in torturing human beings.
From Pole to Pole|Sven Anders Hedin
The big blue plums of Bukhara are celebrated through the whole of Asia.
The Peaches of New York|U. P. Hedrick
Jack Allison wore that same bracelet, unless I'm much mistaken, on his way down in disguise from Bukhara.
King--of the Khyber Rifles|Talbot Mundy

The hardships of the journey from Karshi to Bukhara were great—a bare sandy desert, great heat, very little and very bad water.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art|Various

British Dictionary definitions for bukhara

Bukhara

Bokhara

/ (bʊˈxɑːrə) /

noun

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

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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