Duma
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Polish Duma, Romanian Duma or Ukrainian Дума (Duma).
Proper noun edit
Duma (plural Dumas)
- A surname.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Duma is the 38155th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 581 individuals. Duma is most common among White (78.31%) individuals.
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Duma (plural Dumas)
- Alternative letter-case form of duma (“Russian legislative assembly”)
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 98:
- Barricades were raised, Dumas were convened and dissolved, emergency laws were enacted, mystics sought escape routes to the beyond—and meanwhile this little group of captains and colonels, nicknamed the “Young Turks,” developed their ideas, read the works of German generals, and gathered strength.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Duma”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 497.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
die Duma f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Duma)
- duma (lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia)
- Synonym: Staatsduma
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian Ду́ма (Dúma). Doublet of duma.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Duma f
- (government) State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia)
Declension edit
Declension of Duma
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of Dumitru.
Proper noun edit
Duma f