Roma

Meaning

Name

1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
2. A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.
3. A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

Noun

A Rom; a member of the Romani people.

Adj

Romani: of or pertaining to the Romani people.

Noun

A variety of tomato.

Synonyms

Gypsy

Romani

gypsy

Sinti

Rome

Rom

Romany

Bohemian

Rommany

Gipsy

Italian capital

capital of Italy

Eternal City

gipsy

Translations

Roma

Roma

tsigane

gitano

Roma

gitano

tzigane

Roma

Roma

Rome

cigano

romaní

Roma

Etymology

Cognate with Indonesian: Romang

In summary

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.
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.