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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A song, especially a Slavic folksong, that has alternating happy and sad passages.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A Polish lament or threnody, or a piece of music in a melancholy style.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine

Etymologies

  1. From Ukrainian думка (dúmka), diminutive of дума (dúma, "sung epic poem"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Slovak, Ukrainian folksong, from Ukrainian, diminutive of duma, thought, memory, narrative poem, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “You can do all the dumka stuff in private, the way Anna”

    Cheerful—By Request

  • “For a more detailed discussion, see Yuri Shapoval, Ukraina 20-50-kh rokiv: storinky nenapysanoi istorii (Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 1993); Robert Kusnierz, Ukraina v latach kolektywizacji i Wielkiego Glodu (1929-1933) (Torun: GRADO, 2005); and Rozsekrechena pamiat.”

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