Rome: · Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy) · Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient empire based out of the city of Rome, covering vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa; in full, Roman Empire)
köken: From کابلی (“Kabuli”), because when they first appeared it was wrongly believed that they were from Kabul. Various different words are used to identify them in different regions: In Khorasan, they are called قرشمال (qerešmâl). In Kerman and Balochistan, as well as Tajikistan, they are called لولی (luli). They are called سوزمانی (suzmâni) in most southern provinces such as Luristan and Kermanshah.
köken: Possibly from an Ancient Greek term meaning "untouchable"; compare the modern Greek designations Τσιγγάνοι (Tsingánoi), Αθίγγανοι (Athínganoi). Cognates include Hungarian cigány, English tzigane, Italian zigano, Portuguese cigano, Polish Cygan, Russian цыган (cygan), German Zigeuner, and Spanish cíngaro.
Gypsy · Romani (written or spoken in the language of the Roma people) · bad, worthless
çekim: karşılaştırma cigányabb · üstünlük legcigányabb
köken: From a Slavic language; compare Slovene cigan (“Gypsy”), Serbo-Croatian Cȉgani pl (“Gypsies”). Ultimately from Byzantine Greek ἀθίγγανος (athínganos, “untouchable”). Compare German Zigeuner, and Romanian țigan, which are cognates.
köken: A phono-semantic matching of various European exonyms for Roma people like Yiddish ציגײַנער (tsigayner) and French gitan, with reinforcement from the root צ־ע־ן (forming words related to wandering). By surface analysis, צֹעַן + ־י, as in, someone from the Egyptian city of Tanis, known as צֹעַן (Ṣoʿan) in Hebrew.
köken: Possibly from an Ancient Greek term meaning "untouchable"; compare the modern Greek designations Τσιγγάνοι (Tsingánoi), Αθίγγανοι (Athínganoi). Cognates include Hungarian cigány, English tzigane, Polish Cygan, Russian цыган (cygan).