Roma

See also Róma, Rōma, roma, romà, and romã

English

Etymology 1

Related to Rom, from Romani rom, probably ultimately from Sanskrit डोम (doma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers in Kashmir”). The names of the Lom and Dom are related.

Proper noun

Roma

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

Translations

• For: translations which are exonyms (not cognates of the Romani term for themselves), see Gypsy.

the Romani people

• Albanian: Rom (sq), Romët (sq) pl
• Arabic: روماني (ar) (rumaaniy) m
• Basque: Rom herria (eu)
• Bulgarian: ром (bg) (rom)
• Catalan: romaní (ca) sg, romanís (ca) pl

  Valencian: romaní (ca) sg, romanins (ca) pl

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅姆 (cmn), 罗姆 (cmn) (Luómǔ)

• Czech: Rom (cs) m, Romové (cs)
• Danish: roma (da) c, romani (da) c
• Dutch: Roma (nl)
• Esperanto: Romaoj (eo)
• Estonian: Roma (et)
• Faroese: romi (fo) m
• Finnish: romanit (fi)
• French: Roma (fr), Rroms (fr)
• Georgian: ბოშა (ka) (boša)
• German: Roma (de)
• Greek: Ρομ (el) (Rom), Ρομά (el) (Romá) pl
• Hungarian: romák (hu) pl

• Indonesian: Rom (id)
• Italian: Rom (it)
• Japanese: ロマ (ja) (Roma)
• Korean: 롬 (ko) (Rom)
• Macedonian: Ром (mk) (Rom) m, Ромка (mk) (Rómka) f, Роми (mk) (Rómi) pl
• Marathi: रोमा (mr) (romā), रोमानी (mr) (romānī)
• Norwegian: Romafolket (no), Romanifolk (no)
• Polish: Romowie (pl)
• Portuguese: Rom (pt)
• Romanian: Rom (ro), romi (ro) m pl
• Russian: рома (ru) (romá) pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Роми (sh)

  Roman: Romi (sh)

• Slovak: Rómovia (sk), Róm (sk) m
• Slovene: Romi (sl)
• Spanish: Romaní (es), Romaníes (es) pl
• Swedish: rom (sv)
• Turkish: Romanlar (tr)
• Ukrainian: Роми (uk) (Romy)

the Romani macrolanguage — see Romani

Noun

Roma (plural Romas)

1. A Romani; a member of the Roma/Romani people.

Translations

member of the Roma/Romani people — see Romani

Adjective

Roma (not comparable)

1. Romani: of or pertaining to the Roma people.

Translations

Romani — see Romani

See also

• Rom
• Wikipedia article on the Roma subgroup

Etymology 2

From Italian and Latin Roma (“Rome”).

Proper noun

Roma

1. A variety of tomato.
2. Any of a number of places, including a city in Texas and a city in Queensland.
3. A female given name of English-speakers.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Roma

1. An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Roma, rmm

Anagrams

• Amor, moar, mora, Omar, roam

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Proper noun

Roma f

1. Rome

Related terms

• romà
• romànic
• romanitzar

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Roma f

1. Rome
2. The letter R in the Italian phonetic alphabet

Related terms

• romanesco
• Romania
• romanismo
• romanista
• romanità
• romanizzare
• romano

Anagrams

• amor
• armo, armò
• mora
• orma
• ramo, ramò

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Latin

Etymology

Unclear. May be of Etruscan origin, Ruma being the name of an Etruscan gens.

Proper noun

Rōma (genitive Rōmae, locative Rōmae); f sg, first declension

1. Rome

   Ut Roma jugum omnibus terris imponeret.

   That Rome might overcome all countries.

2. vocative of Rōma

Rōmā

1. ablative of Rōma

   Venit a Roma.

   He came from Rome.

Inflection

nominative	Rōma
genitive	Rōmae
dative	Rōmae
accusative	Rōmam
ablative	Rōmā
vocative	Rōma
locative	Rōmae

Related terms

• Romulus

Derived terms

• rōmāna
• rōmānus
• rōmānicus
• Rōmāna
• Rōmānus

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Ῥώμη, Ῥωμαϊκός, Ῥωμαῖος
• Catalan: Roma
• English: Rome
• French: Rome

• Italian: Roma
• Portuguese: Roma
• Spanish: Roma

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈro.ma/

Proper noun

Roma

1. the city of Rome
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     Eſta ·xviiii· é como ſṫa maria aiudou · á emperadriz de roma · a ſofrer as grãdes coitaſ per que paſſou.

     This 19th is how Holy Mary helped the empress of Rome suffer the great pains she underwent.

Related terms

• romão

Descendants

• Galician: Roma
• Portuguese: Roma

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Papiamentu

Proper noun

Roma

1. Rome

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Roma, from Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʁo.ma/, /ˈʁo.mɐ/

Proper noun

Roma

1. the city of Rome
2. Ancient Rome
3. the Catholic Church

Synonyms

• (Ancient Rome): Roma Antiga
• (the Catholic Church): Santa Sé, Vaticano

Related terms

• romano

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Rōma.

Proper noun

Roma

1. Rome

Related terms

• roman

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Proper noun

Roma f

1. Rome

Related terms

• romance
• romano
• romántico

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Turkish

Proper noun

Roma

1. Rome (province)

Declension

declension of Roma

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	Roma	-
definite accusative (belirtme)	Roma'yı	-
dative (yönelme)	Roma'ya	-
locative (bulunma)	Roma'da	-
ablative (çıkma)	Roma'dan	-
genitive (tamlayan)	Roma'nın	-