Gypsy

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (offensive, sometimes) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
2. A member of other nomadic peoples, not only of the Romani people; a traveller. Alternative spelling of gypsy

Name

1. (offensive, rare, sometimes) The language Romani.
2. A female given name.

Adj

Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc).

Conceptes

gitano

romanís

zíngar

Sinònims

Gipsy

Romany

gypsy

Roma

Romani

Sinti

Bohemian

gipsy

Rommany

Rom

hussy

baggage

Gitano

Traduccions

cigano

gitano

tsigane

Zigeuner

cigana

τσιγγάνος

zigeuner

tzigane

zigeunerin

gitan

gitana

zingaresco

zingaro

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb albanès: evgjit

Cognat amb grec: γύφτος

Cognat amb italià: gitano

Cognat amb espanyol: gitano

In summary

A clipping of Gyptian (in Early Modern English roughly /ˈd͡ʒɪp.sɪ.æn/), itself an aphetic form of Egyptian, from Middle English Egipcian (“Egyptian”) (rarely Gypcian), from Old French egyptien, from Latin aegyptianus, from aegyptius (“Egypt”), because when Roma first appeared in England in the sixteenth century, they were wrongly believed to have come from Egypt. The Albanian evgjit, Greek γύφτος (gýftos), Italian gitano, Spanish gitano and Turkish Kıpti have the same origin. Doublet of Egyptian and Copt.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Rom (words related to the Romani people's autonyms) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.