Noun: tzigane
| Singular | tzigane |
| Plural | tziganes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like tzigane
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From the Hungarian cigány via French tzigane, from Byzantine Greek ἀθίγγανος (athínganos, “untouchable”).
2. Cognate to Italian zigano, zingano and zingaro, Spanish cíngaro, German Zigeuner, Dutch zigeuner, Afrikaans sigeuner, Portuguese cigano, Romanian țigan, Polish Cygan, Czech Cikán, Serbo-Croatian cigan, Russian цыган (cygan), Turkish Çingene. Doublet of zingaro.
3. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Rom (words related to the Romani people's autonyms) and cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt); see those entries for more information. See: Hungarian Nouns '
cigány', French Nouns '
tzigane', Italian Nouns '
zigano', Spanish Nouns '
cíngaro', German Nouns '
Zigeuner', Dutch Nouns '
zigeuner', Portuguese Nouns '
cigano', Romanian Nouns '
țigan', Polish Nouns '
Cygan', Czech Nouns '
Cikán', Russian Nouns '
цыган'.
Verbs referencing "tzigane"
German Nouns
Zigeuner, Czech Nouns
Cikán, Slovak Nouns
Cigán.