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du⋅ma

  [doo-muh]
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–noun
1. (in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
2. (initial capital letter) an elective legislative assembly, established in 1905 by Nicholas II, constituting the lower house of parliament.
Also, douma.

Origin:
1865–70; < Russ, ORuss dúma assembly, council (an early homonym with dúma thought); c. Bulg dúma word, Slovak duma meditation; Slav *dum- prob. < Goth dōms judgment (see doom )
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du·ma   (dōō'mə)   
n.  A Russian national parliament during czarist times.

[Russian, of Germanic origin; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
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duma 
Rus. national assembly, 1870 (in reference to city councils; the national one was set up in 1905), lit. "thought," from a Gmc. source (cf. Goth. doms "judgment," Eng. doom, deem).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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