Romani edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (ḍomba),[1][2] from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers), which could be of Dravidian origin.[3][1][2][4]

For more information, see English Roma.

Noun edit

rrom m anim (accusative rromes, nominative plural rroma, accusative plural rromen)

  1. Romani man[1][2][5][6][7][8]
    Coordinate terms: (Romani woman) rromni, (Romani boy) ćhavo, (Romani girl) ćhaj
    Coordinate term: (gadje (non-Romani) man) gaʒo
  2. husband[1][2][5][6][9][8]
    Coordinate term: rromni

Declension edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.




Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Angloromani: rom
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: rom
  • Welsh Romani: rom
  • Bulgarian: ром (rom)
  • Czech: Rom
  • Dutch: Rom
  • English: Rom
  • French: Rom
  • German: Rom
  • Greek: Ρομ (Rom)
  • Polish: Rom
  • Portuguese: rom
  • Romanian: rom
  • Serbo-Croatian: Róm
  • Slovak: Róm
  • Swedish: rom
  • Ukrainian: ром (rom)

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ḍōmba”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 314
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “řom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 250b
  3. ^ romani”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  4. ^ Milena Hübschmannova (2003 February) “Rom / Ḍom”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database[1], Prague, archived from the original on 19 August 2021
  5. 5.0 5.1 Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
  6. 6.0 6.1 Alinčová, Milena, Hübschmannová, Milena (2002 September) “Rom / Romni”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database[3], Prague, archived from the original on 25 August 2021
  7. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o Rrom I, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 314a
  8. 8.0 8.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 154b
  9. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o rrom II, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 314a