Bârlad

Etymology
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Translations

 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: Бырлад, Берлад
 * Ukrainian: Бирлад, Берладь

Etymology

 * first attested in 1159 in the Hypatian Codex, in which the people living in the area are called.

Of dubious origin, claimed with other toponyms, including, the multitude of which only makes the lacking direct attestation of a descendant even more suspicious, to be formed from a noun or  of variously imagined signification, in this case with collective suffix. In another proposal, it would be a Cuman, vulgo Middle oikonym and derive from no less than, the intrusive  of which has parallels in Turkic borrowings in Slavic such as 🇨🇬 (which you may see).