köken: Borrowed from Spanish gitano, itself derived from apheresis of older egiptano (“Egyptian”), from the mistaken belief that gypsies originated from Egypt.
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.
crow · slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
çekim: çoğul ciori · tamlayan ciori
köken: Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italo-romance dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.
aile: a-l râde și ciorile, cât cioara în par, ca cioara în par, ceapa-ciorii, cioară-de-câmp, cioară-de-semănătură, cioară-gulerată, cioară-pucioasă, ciocul-ciorii, ciorărie
Etimoloji
Through *zan(gj)u, likely from Koine Greek τζαγγίον n (tzangíon, “a Byzantine kind of shoe”), from an earlier Persian ظانگا (zângâ), as in Parthian, absorbed in Latin zanga. Compare Italian zingaro, which, by the way, states a different etymology; the Sicilian hypothesis is supported by the synonymy with caminanti (walker).