Gypsy, member of the Roma, Romani person · member of any of several other nomadic minorities · disorderly, lazy or dodgy person
çekim: çoğul Zigeunern · tamlayan Zigeuners
köken: Middle High German Cigäwnär (mentioning, 1420s), compare Zeginer and Ziginer (15th century). Most likely from a Byzantine Greek term meaning "untouchable"; compare the Modern Greek designations Τσιγγάνοι (Tsingánoi), Αθίγγανοι (Athínganoi). Cognate to Hungarian cigány and terms borrowed from it such as English tzigane, Portuguese cigano, French tzigane, Romanian țigan, and Russian цыга́н (cygán);…
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
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.
Via Byzantine Greek Ἀτσίγγανος (Atsínganos) and Ἀθίγγανος (Athínganos) from Ancient Greek ἀθίγγανος (athínganos, “who doesn't want to be touched; untouchable”), ultimately a compound of privative ἀ- (a-) + θιγγάνω (thingánō, “to touch”). The Middle Greek word had initially been the name of a Christian sect, the Melchizedekian sect, which was subsequently associated to Romani people. Nişanyan…