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duma

name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈdumə/
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  • homophone: doomer
  • CMU ARPABET: D UW1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

name

Meaning 2

Alternative letter-case form of duma (“Russian legislative assembly”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

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3

noun

Meaning 3

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).

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A drink mixing wine and vodka.

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5

noun

Meaning 5

a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers

History

Etymology

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

From Russian ду́ма (dúma, “elective legislative assembly”, originally: “thought”), from Proto-Slavic *duma (“breath, spirit; word; mind, thought; advice”). The drink is named after the legislative assembly.

Across languages

Translations

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: دُومَا (dūmā) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Armenian: դումա (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Azerbaijani: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Bashkir: дума (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Belarusian: ду́ма (dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Bengali: দুমা (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Bulgarian: ду́ма (dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Chinese Mandarin: 俄羅斯國家杜馬 /俄罗斯国家杜马 (Éluōsī guójiā dùmǎ) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杜馬 /杜马 (dùmǎ) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Czech: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Danish: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Dutch: doema — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Esperanto: dumao — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Estonian: riigiduuma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Estonian: duuma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Faroese: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Finnish: duuma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • French: douma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Georgian: დუმა (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • German: Duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Greek: Δούμα (Doúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Hebrew: דּוּמָה (dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Hindi: ड्यूमा (ḍyūmā) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Hindi: दूमा (dūmā) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Hungarian: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Indonesian: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Italian: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Japanese: ドゥーマ (dūma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Japanese: 国家院 (kokkain) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Kazakh: дума (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Korean: 두마 (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Northern Kurdish: dûma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Kyrgyz: дума (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Latvian: dome — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Lithuanian: dūma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Macedonian: дума (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Malay: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Mongolian: дум (dum) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Norwegian Bokmål: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Ossetian: думӕ (dumæ) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Persian: دوما (dumâ) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Polish: Duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Portuguese: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Romanian: dumă — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Russian: ду́ма (dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Russian: Ду́ма (Dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма (Gosudárstvennaja dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Russian: Госду́ма (Gosdúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Serbo-Croatian: ду̀ма — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Serbo-Croatian: dùma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Slovak: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Slovene: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Spanish: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Swedish: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Tajik: дума (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Tatar: дума (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Turkish: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Ottoman Turkish: دوما (duma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Turkmen: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Ukrainian: ду́ма (dúma) — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Uzbek: duma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Vietnamese: Viện Đu-ma — lower house of Russian national parliament
  • Vietnamese: Đu-ma — lower house of Russian national parliament