Romani

See also romani, români, and romaní

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Romany

Etymology

From Romani romani, feminine form of romano (“of or pertaining to the Roma”), from rom (“man”). See also Roma.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.ni/, X-SAMPA: /"r@U.M@.ni/

Proper noun

Romani

1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Roma.
2. 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.

Translations

nomadic people — see Roma

For translations which are exonyms (not cognates of the Romani term for their own language), see Gypsy.

language

• Catalan: romaní (ca) m
• Czech: romština (cs) f
• Danish: romani (da) n
• Finnish: romani (fi)
• French: romani (fr) m
• German: Roma-Sprache (de) f, Romani (de) n
• Hindi: रोमानी भाषा (hi) (romānī bhāṣā) f
• Macedonian: ромски (mk) (rómski) m
• Marathi: रोमानी (mr) (romānī) f

• Polish: romani n, język romski m
• Portuguese: români (pt) m, romani (pt) m
• Romani: Romani chib
• Romanian: limba țigănească (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ромски m

  Roman: romski m

• Spanish: romaní m
• Swedish: romani (sv)

Noun

Romani (plural Romanies)

1. A member of the Roma people.

Synonyms

• Rom
• (sometimes offensive) Gypsy, gypsy

Translations

member of the Roma people — see Rom

Adjective

Romani (not comparable)

1. Of or belonging to the Roma people.

Translations

• Compare: the translations of Gypsy#Adjective.

of or belonging to the Roma people

• Bulgarian: ромски (bg) (rhomski) m
• Catalan: romaní (ca) m and f
• Czech: romský (cs)
• Macedonian: ромски (mk) (rómski) m
• Portuguese: rom (pt) m and f

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ромски m

  Roman: romski m

• Swedish: romsk (sv)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Romani terms
• Appendix:Romani Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Romani
• Domari

External links

• Romani - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition
• ISO 639-3 code rom (SIL)

Ethnologue entry for Balkan Romani, rmn Ethnologue entry for Baltic Romani, rml Ethnologue entry for Carpathian Romani, rmc Ethnologue entry for Kalo Romani, rmf

Ethnologue entry for Sinte Romani, rmo Ethnologue entry for Vlax Romani, rmy Ethnologue entry for Welsh Romani, rmw

Anagrams

• A minor, A-minor, inamor, mainor, manoir, Marion, Morian, roamin'

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Italian

Noun

Romani m

1. Plural form of Romano

See also

• Rom
• romani
• romano

Anagrams

• armino, armoni, marino, marinò, mirano, normai, ramino, rimano, rinoma