The name is alleged to derive from the Romanian word for "beech" (
fag). Another source of the name is alleged to derive from the Hungarian language word for "partridge" (
fogor).
A more plausible explanation is that the name is given by Fogaras river
coming from the Pecheneg "Fagar šu", which means ash water. Another
source of the name is given by folk etymology to be Hungarian, as the rendering of "wood" (
fa) and "money" (
garas), with legends stating that money made of wood had been used to pay the peasants who built the fortress around 1310.
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