Gypsy

Etymology
A (in  roughly ), itself an, from  (rarely ), from , from , from , because when Roma first appeared in England in the sixteenth century, they were wrongly believed to have come from Egypt. The 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 have the same origin. .

The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Rom (words related to the Romani people's autonyms) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.

Noun

 * 1)  A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
 * 2) A member of other nomadic peoples, not only of the Romani people; a traveller.

Usage notes

 * Gypsy is an exonym (a name given by outsiders, based on the mistaken belief that Romanis came from Egypt) and some Romani people find it offensive, as it has negative connotations, such as that the people are dishonest or thieving (compare gypsy, gyp), and it is associated with discrimination and persecution of Romani. Many dictionaries recommend avoiding the term, or give it a negative or warning label.      Gypsy is still more common overall than Romani, and is a common term of self-indication among Romani in the United Kingdom.

Synonyms

 * Romani, Rom, Roma
 * zigeuner, tzigane

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sigeuner
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, غَجَرِيّ, غَجَرِيَّة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: cinghine, yiftu, curbet
 * Azerbaijani: siqan, qaraçı
 * Bashkir: сиған
 * Basque: ijito
 * Belarusian: цыга́н, цыга́нка
 * Bulgarian:, ци́ганка
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Циґан, Циґанка
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: цигон
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: чикан
 * Czech: Cikán, Cikánka
 * Danish: sigøjner
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: cigano, ciganino
 * Estonian: mustlane
 * Faroese: sigoyni, sigoynari
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: ბოშა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole: jitàn
 * Hebrew: צוֹעֲנִי, צוֹעֲנִית
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Sígauni
 * Irish: giofóg, duine den lucht siúil
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ジプシー
 * Kazakh: сыған, цыган
 * Korean: 집시
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, цыган
 * Latvian: čigāns, čigāne
 * Lithuanian:, čigonė
 * Macedonian: Ци́ган, Ци́ганин, Ци́ганка, Ѓуптин
 * Malay: gipsi
 * Maori: Hipihi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sigøyner, sigøynerske
 * Nynorsk: sigøynar, sigøynerske
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Ziejoon
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, cigana
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ци̏ганин, Ци̏га̄н, Ци̏га̄нка
 * Roman:, Cȉgān,
 * Sicilian: caminanti, gitanu, zannu, zìngaru
 * Slovak: Cigán, Cigánka
 * Slovene: Cigan, Ciganka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hitano
 * Tajik: лӯлӣ, ҷӯгӣ
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: loly
 * Ukrainian: ци́ган, ци́ганка
 * Urdu: جِپْسی
 * Uyghur: سىگان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Di-gan, Xư-gan
 * Volapük:
 * Votic: mustõlain
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ציגײַנער, ציגײַנערין

Proper noun

 * 1)  The language Romani.

Usage notes
See the notes about the noun, above.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 吉普賽

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc).

Usage notes
See the notes about the noun, above.