Roma

Meanings

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

1. A Rom; a member of the Romani people.

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

1. A number of places around the world:
2. A town, the seat of the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia, from the Italian surname di Roma.
3. A settlement in Maseru district, Lesotho.
4. A town in Ascope province, La Libertad region, northern Peru.
5. A commune in Botoșani County, Romania.
6. A village in Valencia province, Valencia, Spain.
7. A locality in central Gotland, Sweden.
8. A city and border crossing point on the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, United States.
9. A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.
10. Alternative form of Rome:
11. A major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.
12. A metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy

1. A variety of tomato.

1. An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

1. Alternative letter-case form of Roma (“a variety of tomato”).

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.