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say it: DOO-muh
duma is a noun meaning "a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR". It carries one recorded sense.
a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for duma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.