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

Related terms

• ду́дки! (dúdki!, “not on your life!, fudge!, rats!”) (interjection)

References

• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 233
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дуда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress