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English
Etymology
From Italian. Doublet of tzigane.
Noun
zingaro (plural zingaros or zingari)
- (archaic) A Gypsy.
1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
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Adjective
zingaro (plural zingaros)
- zingaro
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Dissimilated form of earlier zingano, most likely from a Greek term meaning "untouchable". Compare the modern Greek designations Τσιγγάνοι (Tsingánoi), Αθίγγανοι (Athínganoi), τσιγγάνος (tsingános).[1][2][3] Cognate to German Zigeuner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈd͡zin.ɡa.ro/, (traditional) */ˈt͡sin.ɡa.ro/[4]
- Rhymes: -inɡaro
- Hyphenation: zìn‧ga‧ro
Noun
zingaro m (plural zingari, feminine zingara)
- Gypsy, Roma
- (offensive) a scruffy or slovenly person
- tinker
- (figuratively) a person who likes to travel, who cannot stay a long time in one place
1971, “Il cuore è uno zingaro”, performed by Nicola Di Bari:Catene non ha, / il cuore è uno zingaro e va.- It has no chains, / the heart is a Gypsy and goes away.
Adjective
zingaro (feminine zingara, masculine plural zingari, feminine plural zingare)
- (relational) Gypsy, Romani
References
- ^ 2004, Viorel Achim, The Roma in Romanian History (Bucharest), page 9
- ^ 2007, Jean-Pierre Liégeois, Roma In Europe, page 17
- ^ 1993, Struggling for Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies of Hungary (published by Human Rights Watch), page 1
- ^ zingaro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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