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Roma vs Romani - What's the difference?

roma | romani |

Romani is a synonym of roma.



As proper nouns the difference between roma and romani

is that roma is a nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani while Romani is a nomadic people with origins in India, the Roma.

As nouns the difference between roma and romani

is that roma is a Romani; a member of the Roma/Romani people while Romani is a member of the Roma people.

As adjectives the difference between roma and romani

is that roma is romani: of or pertaining to the Roma people while Romani is of or belonging to the Roma people.

roma

English

Etymology 1

Related to Rom, from (etyl) rom, probably ultimately from (etyl) .See e.g. Matras, Romani, A linguistic Introduction'' (2005) The names of the ''Lom'' and ''Dom are related. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy'' (words related to ''Egypt'') and cognates of ''tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
  • A subgroup of the Romani people found primary in Eastern Europe.
  • A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Romani; a member of the Roma/Romani people.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Romani: of or pertaining to the Roma people.

    • See also

    * Rom *

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) and (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A variety of tomato.
  • Any of a number of places, including a city in Texas and a city in Queensland.
  • of English-speakers.

    • Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

    • External links

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    Anagrams

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    romani

    English

    (Romani language)

    Alternative forms

    * Romany

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A nomadic people with origins in India, the Roma.
    • The Romani have long been discriminated against.
  • The Indo-Aryan lect of the Roma people, or one of its sublects (such as Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc), closely related to Hindi and Rajasthani.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • A member of the Roma people.

    • Synonyms

    * Rom * (sometimes offensive) Gypsy, gypsy

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or belonging to the Roma people.

    • See also

    * (rom) * Language list * Domari

    References

    External links

    * Romani - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition * * * * * * * *

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