different between duma vs dumka

English

Alternative forms

• Duma

Etymology

From Russian ????? (dúma, “elective legislative assembly; originally: thought”), ultimately of Germanic origin. Doublet of doom. The drink is named after the legislative assembly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dum?/
• Hyphenation: du?ma

Noun

duma (plural dumas)

1. A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).
   • 1905, “Russian Duma” in The Outlook Volume 80, 989:

     Hence, while preserving his autocratic power, the Czar decrees a “Gosudarstvennaia Duma,” or State Council. The elections for this Duma will cover the whole territory of the Empire, ...

2. A drink mixing wine and vodka.

Translations

Anagrams

• Maud, maud, muda

Bikol Central

Noun

duma

1. tuber

Hausa

Noun

dum? m (plural dum??m?, possessed form duman)

1. calabash, gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)

Verb

dum?? (grade 1)

1. To put one's mouth deeply into something
2. (with an indirect object) To strike a person with something

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dum?]
• Hyphenation: du?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Etymology 1

From the Russian ????? (dúma, “duma”).

Noun

duma (plural dumák)

1. duma

Declension

Etymology 2

From Romani dum? (“speech”), from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *duma.

Noun

duma (plural dumák)

1. (colloquial) talk, chat
2. (colloquial) bullshit, lie

Declension

Derived terms

• dumál

Latvian

Adjective

duma

1. (dialectal form) genitive singular masculine form of dums
2. (dialectal form) nominative singular feminine form of dums

Northern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

Verb

-duma

1. to thunder, to rumble

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Northern Sotho

Etymology 1

Verb

duma

1. to want
2. to wish

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

Verb

duma

1. to thunder

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *duma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.ma/
• Hyphenation: du?ma

Noun

duma f

1. pride (sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one)

Declension

Verb

duma

1. third-person singular present of duma?

Further reading

• duma in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• duma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• d'uma (dated)

Etymology

From earlier d'uma, de (“of”) + uma (“feminine singular indefinite article”)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?du.m?/

Contraction

duma f (feminine plural dumas, masculine dum, masculine plural duns)

1. Contraction of de uma (“pertaining or relating to a”).of a; from a (feminine singular)
   • 1877, Unknown, A boneca, compiled in Contos para a Infância, Guerra Junqueiro:

     Deixe-me agora, leitor, contar-lhe uma história — a história duma boneca!

     Now let me, reader, tell you a story - the story of a doll!

Southern Ndebele

Relative

-dúma

1. tasteless, flavourless

Inflection

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du?ma

Noun

duma (n class, plural duma)

1. cheetah

Zulu

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dú?ma/

Relative

-dúma

1. tasteless, flavourless

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

The expected reflex would be -vuma. It is likely that this is a back formation from indumo, from Proto-Bantu *-d??ma, a variant of Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

Verb

-duma

1. (intransitive) to be noisy
2. (intransitive) to roar, to thunder
3. (intransitive) to be famous, to be renowned

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-duma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-duma”
• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “duma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “duma (8.3)”

English

Etymology

From Ukrainian ?????? (dúmka), diminutive of ????? (dúma, “sung epic poem”).

Noun

dumka (countable and uncountable, plural dumkas or dumky)

1. (uncountable) A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine.
2. (countable) An individual composition in this genre.