roma

See also: Roma, romà, Róma, romã, Rōma, and Rô-ma

English

Noun

roma (plural romas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Roma (“a variety of tomato”).
   • 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:

     Swap the vegetables for roma tomatoes (seeded), steamed new potatoes, carrots, and chickpeas (rinsed and drained); add a pinch of curry to the vinaigrette.

Anagrams

• moar, roam, Maor, Mora, Oram, Omar, Amor, armo, amor, Ramo, mora, Armo

Danish

Etymology

See romani

Noun

roma c (singular definite romaen, plural indefinite romaer)

1. Rom (a Romani, a member of the Roma people)
2. Roma (the Roma/Romani people)

Inflection

Declension of roma

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	roma	romaen	romaer	romaerne
genitive	romas	romaens	romaers	romaernes

Synonyms

• romani c, sigøjner (sometimes offensive)

See also

• Roma (folkeslag) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from Romani rroma, plural of rrom (“Romani man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈromɒ]
• Hyphenation: ro‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

Noun

roma (plural romák)

1. Rom (a member of the Roma people)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	roma	romák
accusative	romát	romákat
dative	romának	romáknak
instrumental	romával	romákkal
causal-final	romáért	romákért
translative	romává	romákká
terminative	romáig	romákig
essive-formal	romaként	romákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	romában	romákban
superessive	román	romákon
adessive	románál	romáknál
illative	romába	romákba
sublative	romára	romákra
allative	romához	romákhoz
elative	romából	romákból
delative	romáról	romákról
ablative	romától	romáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	romáé	romáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	romáéi	romákéi

Possessive forms of roma
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	romám	romáim
2nd person sing.	romád	romáid
3rd person sing.	romája	romái
1st person plural	románk	romáink
2nd person plural	romátok	romáitok
3rd person plural	romájuk	romáik

Further reading

• roma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Noun

roma

1. a type of rice

Anagrams

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

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈oβ̃a]

Verb

·roma

1. third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic ro-form of maidid

Pali

Alternative forms

• loma

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• 𑀭𑁄𑀫 (Brahmi script)
• रोम (Devanagari script)
• রোম (Bengali script)
• රොම (Sinhalese script)
• ရောမ or ရေႃမ (Burmese script)
• โรม or โรมะ (Thai script)
• ᩁᩮᩣᨾ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂຣມ or ໂຣມະ (Lao script)
• រោម (Khmer script)
• 𑄢𑄮𑄟 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit रोमन् (róman). Cognate with Prakrit 𑀭𑁄𑀫 (roma).

Noun

roma n

1. hair (of the body)

Declension

Declension table of "roma" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	romaṃ	romāni
Accusative (second)	romaṃ	romāni
Instrumental (third)	romena	romehi or romebhi
Dative (fourth)	romassa or romāya or romatthaṃ	romānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	romasmā or romamhā or romā	romehi or romebhi
Genitive (sixth)	romassa	romānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	romasmiṃ or romamhi or rome	romesu
Vocative (calling)	roma	romāni

Descendants

• → Khmer: រោម (room)

References

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “roma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead, page 577
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rṓman”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 627

Portuguese

Adjective

roma (invariable)

1. (relational) of the Roma people

   Synonym: rom

Anagrams

• amor

Sotho

Verb

roma

1. to send

Spanish

Adjective

roma

1. feminine singular of romo