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dum•ka
(dŏŏm′kə),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ky (-kē).USA pronunciation
- Music and Dancea Slavic folk song that alternates in character between sadness and gaiety.
- Music and Dancean instrumental composition or movement imitative of such a folk song.
- Ukrainian dúmka, origin, originally diminutive of dúma a genre of narrative folk poetry; see duma
- Czech
- 1890–95