duma

 

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duma

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• Duma

From Russian ду́ма (dúma, “elective legislative assembly”, originally: “thought”), Origin of the Slavic term is disputed. Either of Germanic origin. Doublet of doom. Or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”), akin to Proto-Slavic *duti (“to blow"), *dymъ (“smoke”). The drink is named after the legislative assembly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdumə/

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• Homophone: doomer
• Hyphenation: du‧ma

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.

• Damu, Maud, maud, muda

• IPA^(key): /ˈduma/ [ˈdʊmʌ]
• Hyphenation: du‧ma

dúma

1. once upon a time
2. in the beginning

dúma

1. (+ -k form) before

   Anú okmék dúma. ― Before I eat.

dúma m 

1. precedence
2. former time

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “dùma”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 37
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

duma

1. tuber

• IPA^(key): /dú.máː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [dɪ́.máː]

dumā m (plural dumā̀mē, possessed form duman)

1. calabash, gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)

• IPA^(key): /dú.màː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [dɪ́.màː]

dumā̀ (grade 1)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdumɒ]
• Hyphenation: du‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

Borrowed from Russian ду́ма (dúma, “duma”).

duma (usually uncountable, plural dumák)

1. (historical) duma

Borrowed from Romani dùma (“speech”), from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *duma.

duma (countable and uncountable, plural dumák)

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

• (duma): duma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (talk, chat): duma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• duma in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

duma

1. to thunder

duma

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

From Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

-duma

1. to thunder, to rumble

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

duma

1. to want
2. to wish

From Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

duma

1. to thunder

Inherited from Sanskrit द्रुम (druma, “tree”).

duma m

1. tree

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “duma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
• Maung Tin (1920), The Student's Pali-English Dictionary, Rangoon: British Burma Press.

 

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duma

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ma/

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: du‧ma
• Homophone: Duma

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *duma. Doublet of Duma.

duma f

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

Borrowed from Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma).

duma f

1. dumka (individual composition in the genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine)

   Synonym: dumka

2. dumka (literary work based on such a composition)

   Synonym: dumka

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

duma

1. third-person singular present of dumać

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

• d'uma (dated)

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

duma f sg

1. Contraction of de uma (“of/from a (feminine)”): feminine singular of dum
   • 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!

-dúma

1. tasteless, flavourless

 

 

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• Hyphenation: du‧ma

duma (n class, plural duma)

1. cheetah

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

IPA^(key): /dúːma/

-dúma

1. tasteless, flavourless

From Proto-Bantu *-dùma.

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

-duma

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

• 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)”