dumka
noun
dumka is a noun meaning “A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-U-M-K-A, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dumka is dumkas or dumky.
What does dumka mean?
noun
- 1
A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine.
- 2
An individual composition in this genre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dumka
- dumkas plural
- dumky plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dumka?
Dumka appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does dumka come from?
From Ukrainian ду́мка (dúmka), diminutive of ду́ма (dúma, “sung epic poem”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).