roma

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈɹoʊmə/
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/ˈɹoʊmə/ · /ˈɹəʊmə/

Definition of roma

19 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
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name

  1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
  2. A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.
  3. A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.
  4. A number of places around the world:
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  11. A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.
  12. Alternative form of Rome:
    “O Roma, Roma, at thy feet / I lay this barren gift of song! / For, ah! the way is steep and long / That leads unto thy sacred street.”
    “But it would have been so nice to have a private income, and to be able sometimes to go to Venezia, Firenze, Roma, those places with the beautiful names.”
    “At Neapolis there was chaos as those who could flee Roma came to this port seeking escape.”
  13. Alternative form of Rome:
  14. (historical)Alternative form of Rome:
  15. An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

noun

  1. A Rom; a member of the Romani people.
    “My genes would best be described as a melting pot – my mother is part Bulgarian Roma, part Romanichal (English Romany), and my dad is part Romanichal, part Irish Traveller – thus, it was hardly surprising when I was born a blue-eyed milk bottle.”
  2. A variety of tomato.
  3. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Roma (“a variety of tomato”).
    “Swap the vegetables for roma tomatoes (seeded), steamed new potatoes, carrots, and chickpeas (rinsed and drained); add a pinch of curry to the vinaigrette.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Romani: of or pertaining to the Romani people.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru,…

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Borrowed from Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.

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