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Duma
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "duma"
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Polish Duma, Romanian Duma or Ukrainian Дума (Duma).
Proper noun
Duma (plural Dumas)
- A surname.
Statistics
- 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
Proper noun
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
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Duma”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 497.
Anagrams
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German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
die Duma f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Duma)
- duma (lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia)
- Synonym: Staatsduma
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Duma f
- (government) State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia)
Declension
Declension of Duma
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Diminutive of Dumitru.
Proper noun
Duma f
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