DUMKA
- Slavic folk song that alternates in character between sadness and gaiety
- instrumental composition or movement imitative of such a folk song
- an Eastern European folk ballad or lament usually with alternating slow and fast sections
- (Czech) a lament, a piece alternating between lively and sorrowful moods [n DUMKY or DUMKAS]
- a Slavic folk ballad [n DUMKAS, DUMKY]