romani

UK /ˈɹɒ.mə.ni/ US /ˈɹɑ.mə.ni/

noun 2name 2adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

limburgish, local, long, low, most, still, yiddish

VERB + ROMANI

comes, isn't, speak

ROMANI + NOUN

manele, population, singer, word

PREP.

from

Definitions

noun

A member of the Roma, a nomadic people with origins in India.

The Romani have long been discriminated against.

A member of a people originating in Pakistan or Northwest India and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across Europe and North and South America and speaking a language that is related to Hindi.

name

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.

adj

Of or belonging to the Roma people.

Every year the local Romani population, still called “gypsies” by many, lit harvest fires.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Roman

adjective — of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture

romany

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The Romani have long been discriminated against.

Wiktionary

Every year the local Romani population, still called “gypsies” by many, lit harvest fires.

Wiktionary

Do you speak Romani?

Tatoeba · #5871068

Tom is a Romani manele singer.

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Porajmos comes from the Romani word for devouring.

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Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish, Romani, and Yiddish have protected status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Tatoeba · #11037242

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