дудка

Russian

Etymology

From дуда́ (dudá, “fife, pipe”) +‎ -ка (-ka). Miklosich and Berneker considered this Slavic word to be borrowed from Turkic, but Vasmer and Brückner believe that the close sound rendition of these onomatopoetic words is a "mere chance". Cognate with Lithuanian daudýtė (“panpipe”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈdutkə]

Noun

ду́дка • (dúdka) f inan (genitive ду́дки, nominative plural ду́дки, genitive plural ду́док)

  1. fife, pipe (small shrill pipe)
    пляса́ть под чью́-либо ду́дку (idiomatic) ― pljasátʹ pod čʹjú-libo dúdku ― to dance to somebody's tune / piping

Declension
Declension of ду́дка (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc) 
singular plural
nominative ду́дка
dúdka		 ду́дки
dúdki
genitive ду́дки
dúdki		 ду́док
dúdok
dative ду́дке
dúdke		 ду́дкам
dúdkam
accusative ду́дку
dúdku		 ду́дки
dúdki
instrumental ду́дкой, ду́дкою
dúdkoj, dúdkoju		 ду́дками
dúdkami
prepositional ду́дке
dúdke		 ду́дках
dúdkax
  • ду́дки! (dúdki!, “not on your life!, fudge!, rats!”) (interjection)

References
  • Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Winter, page 233
  • Vasmer, Max (1964), “дуда”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume I, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress, page 550
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