Duma

See also: Appendix:Variations of "duma"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Polish Duma, Romanian Duma or Ukrainian Дума (Duma).

Proper noun

Duma (plural Dumas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Duma is the 38155^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 581 individuals. Duma is most common among White (78.31%) individuals.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Duma (plural Dumas)

1. 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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Duma”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 497.

Anagrams

• Damu, Maud, maud, muda

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduːma/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

die Duma f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Duma)

1. duma (lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia)

   Synonym: Staatsduma

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ду́ма (Dúma). Doublet of duma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ma/
• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: Du‧ma
• Homophone: duma

Proper noun

Duma f

1. (government) State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia)

Declension

Declension of Duma

	singular
nominative	Duma
genitive	Dumy
dative	Dumie
accusative	Dumę
instrumental	Dumą
locative	Dumie
vocative	Dumo

Further reading

• Duma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Duma in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Duma in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Diminutive of Dumitru.

Proper noun

Duma f

1. A village in Dereneu, Călărași Raion, Moldova
2. a surname