Duma

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

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Duma (plural Dumas)

  1. A surname.
Statistics
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  • 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

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Proper noun

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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

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Anagrams

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈduːma/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

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

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

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Duma f

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

Declension

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Further reading

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Diminutive of Dumitru.

Proper noun

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Duma f

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