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Romani vs Nomad - What's the difference?

romani | nomad |

As nouns the difference between romani and nomad

is that romani is rosemary or romani can be roma (a member of the roma people) while nomad is nomad.

As adjectives the difference between romani and nomad

is that romani is romani (pertaining to the roma people or to the romani languages) while nomad is nomadic.

As a proper noun romani

is romani (a family of indo-aryan languages used by the roma people of europe).

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

    Anagrams

    * ----

    nomad

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia nomad) (en noun)
  • A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • A wanderer.
  • Derived terms

    * grey nomad * nomade * nomadic * nomadism

    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , nòm?d, nomadi , nomáda, nomada , nomadu, nomadima , nomada, nomade , nomade, nomadi , nomadu, nomadima , nomadom, nomadima }}