DUMKA


Meaning of DUMKA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdu̇m-kə ]

noun

( plural dum·ky -kē)

Etymology: Czech, elegy, from Ukrainian, diminutive of duma narrative folk poem, from Old Russian

Date: 1895

: an Eastern European folk ballad or lament usually with alternating slow and fast sections

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