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In the English language (according to the Oxford English Dictionary), Rom is a noun (with the plural Romá or Roms) and an adjective, while Romany is also a noun (with the plural Romanies) and an adjective. Both Rom and Romany have been in use in English since the 19th century as an alternative for Gypsy. Romany is also spelled Romani, or Rommany.[1]

Sometimes, rom and romani are spelled with a double r, i.e., rrom and rromani, particularly in

endonym (români), to which it has no relation. This is well established in Romani itself, since it represents a phoneme (/ʀ/ also written as ř and rh) which in some Romani dialects has remained different from the one written with a single r.[2]

Roma is a term primarily used in political contexts to refer to the Romani people as a whole.[3][4] Still, some subgroups of Romani do not self-identify as Roma, therefore some scholars avoid using the term Roma as not all Romani subgroups accept the term.[5]

Because all Romanies use the word Romani as an adjective, the term began to be used as a noun for the entire ethnic group.[6]

The term Romani is used by some organizations, including the United Nations and the US Library of Congress.[2] However, the Council of Europe and other organizations use the term Roma to refer to Romani people around the world, and recommended that Romani be restricted to the language and culture: Romani language, Romani culture.[7][8][9]

Etymology

The

ḍoma "a man of low caste, living by singing and music"[12][13]

The ultimate origin of the Sanskrit term ḍoma (perhaps from

tomtom'.[15]

Gypsy and gipsy

The English term gipsy or gypsy

racial slur and a pejorative connotation implying illegality and irregularity,[18] and some modern dictionaries either recommend avoiding use of the word gypsy entirely or give it a negative or warning label.[19]

A British House of Commons Committee parliamentary inquiry, as described in their report "Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities" (published 2019),[20] stated about their findings in the United Kingdom that: "We asked many members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities how they preferred to describe themselves. While some find the term "Gypsy" to be offensive, many stakeholders and witnesses were proud to associate themselves with this term and so we have decided that it is right and proper to use it, where appropriate, throughout the report."

The Oxford English Dictionary states a 'gipsy' is a

member of a wandering race (by themselves called Romany), of Indian origin, which first appeared in England about the beginning of the 16th c.

The first usage of the word in English found by the OED was 1514, with several more usages in the same century, and both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used this word.[21]

This

gitano, the French term gitan and the Basque term ijito have the same origin.[23]

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the name was written in various ways: Egipcian, Egypcian, 'gypcian. The word gipsy/gypsy comes from the spellings which had lost the initial capital E, and that is one reason that it is often spelled with the initial g in lowercase.

nomadism and exoticism.[25] John Matthews in The World Atlas of Divination refer to gypsies as "Wise Women".[26]
Colloquially, gipsy/gypsy is used refer to any person perceived by the speaker as fitting the
gypsy stereotypes.[27]

Use in English law

Gipsy has several developing and overlapping meanings under

New Age Travellers as well as Irish Travellers and Romany.[29][30]

"Gipsies" of Romany origins have been a recognised ethnic group for the purposes of Race Relations Act 1976 since Commission for Racial Equality v Dutton 1989, as have Irish Travellers in England and Wales since O'Leary v Allied Domecq 2000 (having already gained recognition in Northern Ireland in 1997).[29][30][31]

List of names

Gipsy

In several countries, they were thought to come from Egypt.

Tsinganoi

In much of continental Europe, Romanies are known by names related to the Greek term τσιγγάνοι (tsinganoi):

The name originates with

Byzantine Greek ἀτσίγγανοι (atsinganoi, Latin adsincani) or ἀθίγγανοι (athinganoi, literally "untouchables"), a term applied to the sect of the Melchisedechians.[36][37][38] The Adsincani appear in an 11th-century text preserved in Mt Athos, The Life of Saint George the Athonite (written in the Georgian language), as "a Samaritan people, descendants of Simon the Magician, named Adsincani, who were renowned sorcerers and villains". In the text, emperor Constantine Monomachos employs the Adsincani to exterminate wild animals, who were destroying the game in the imperial park of Philopation.[39]

Bohémiens

Because many Romanies living in France had come via Bohemia, they were referred to as Bohémiens.[40] This term would later be adapted by the French to refer to a particular artistic and impoverished lifestyle of an individual, known as Bohemianism.

  • Basque: buhame (in the Northern dialects)[41][42]

Roma

Other

  • Albanian: Arixhi (handler of bears)
  • Arabic
    : غجر ghájar
  • Azerbaijani: Qaraçı
  • Estonian: mustlased
  • Finnish: mustalaiset
  • Georgian: ბოშები bošebi
  • Hebrew: צוענים‎ tsoʿănim (from the city Soan in Egypt)
  • Kurdish قەرەچی, qaraçı (from Turkish); دۆم, dom
  • Mingrelian: ჩაჩანეფი çaçanephi
  • Spanish: calé[43]

See also

References

  1. ^ *Definition at dictionary.cambridge.org
  2. ^
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    . Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  3. ^ p. 13 in Illona Klimova-Alexander's The Romani Voice in World Politics: The United Nations and Non-State Actors (2005, Burlington, VT.: Ashgate
  4. ^ Rothéa, Xavier. "Les Roms, une nation sans territoire?" (in French). Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  5. ^ p. 52 in Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov's "Historical and ethnographic background; Gypsies, Roma, Sinti" in Will Guy [ed.] Between Past and Future: The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe [with a Foreword by Dr. Ian Hancock], 2001, UK: University of Hertfordshire Press
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  9. ^ Roma, Sinti, Gypsies, Travellers...The Correct Terminology about Roma Archived 2014-07-19 at the Wayback Machine at In Other WORDS project - Web Observatory & Review for Discrimination alerts & Stereotypes deconstruction
  10. ^ The Institute for Middle East Understanding Archived 2007-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Online Etymology Dictionary - Douglas Harper
  12. ISBN 0-19-214183-X
  13. Monier-Williams
    , Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
  14. ^ Abhijit Ghosh, Non-Aryan linguistic elements in the Atharvaveda: a study of some words of Austric origin, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 2000, p. 10, 76.
  15. ^ T. Burrow and M.B. Emeneau, A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), p. 257, entry #2949.
  16. ^ From the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989; online version December 2011) Etymology section for the word gipsy:

    From the quotations collected for the dictionary, the prevalent spelling of late years appears to have been gipsy. The plural gypsies is not uncommon, but the corresponding form in the singular seems to have been generally avoided, probably because of the awkward appearance of the repetition of y.
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  20. ^ House of Commons Women & Equalities Committee (5 April 2019). "Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  21. ^ Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Edition 1989. "Gipsy, gypsy, n."
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  23. ^ "gitan" (in French). Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2007-08-26. Emprunté de l'espagnol gitano, gitana, altération de Egiptano, proprement « Égyptien », car on attribuait aux bohémiens une origine égyptienne.
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  27. ^ Hancock, Ian. "PERSPECTIVES The Struggle for the Control of Identity". Roma Participation Program. pp. 1–8. Archived from the original on 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  28. ^ Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) The UK Statute Law Database.
  29. ^ a b Ravi Low-Beer Challenging Gypsy planning policies occasional discussion paper number 1, Traveller Law Research Unit, Cardiff Law School, P O Box 427, Cardiff CF1 1XD. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
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  32. ^ "ijito - Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia bilaketa". www.euskaltzaindia.eus.
  33. ^ "ijito - Harluxet Hiztegi Entziklopedikoa". www1.euskadi.net.
  34. ^ Royal Galician Academy "cigano"
  35. ^ Royal Galician Academy "cíngaro"
  36. ^ White, Karin (1999). "Metal-workers, agriculturists, acrobats, military-people and fortune-tellers: Roma (Gypsies) in and around the Byzantine empire". Golden Horn. 7 (2). Archived from the original on 2014-09-20. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
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  39. Analecta Bollandiana
    , 36-37, 1917-19.
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  41. ^ "buhame". Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (in Spanish) (10 ed.). Euskaltzaindia. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  42. ^ "buhame - Harluxet Hiztegi Entziklopedikoa". www1.euskadi.net.
  43. ^ "calé". Diccionari de la lengua española (in Spanish) (23.6 ed.). RAE - ASALE. 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2023.

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