Meaning

15 senses

  1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.

  2. A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.

    Roma

    рома́romá

    РомиRomy

  3. A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

  4. A number of places around the world:

    A town, the seat of the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia, from the Italian surname di Roma.

  5. A settlement in Maseru district, Lesotho.

  6. A town in Ascope province, La Libertad region, northern Peru.

  7. A commune in Botoșani County, Romania.

  8. A village in Valencia province, Valencia, Spain.

  9. A locality in central Gotland, Sweden.

  10. A city and border crossing point on the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, United States.

  11. A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.

  12. Alternative form of Rome:

    A major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. Tom doesn't know the difference between a Roma and a Hungarian.

    Том не розуміє різниці між циганом та угорцем. — deniko

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  2. "Roma" is an anagram of "amor."

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  3. My maternal grandmother was half Roma.

    ruМоя бабушка по матери была наполовину цыганкой. — Ooneykcall

    deMeine Großmutter mütterlicherseits war Halb-Roma. — Rovo

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  4. I want to visit the Colosseum in Roma.

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  5. The Roma remain in a particularly disadvantageous position throughout the region.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the Romani people:
Русский
By meaning 1
the Romani people:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the Romani people:

Origin

Borrowed from Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably

Borrowed from Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times.

From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.

Compare Indonesian Bahasa Romang (“Roma language”).

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Forms

See also

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