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tzigane

/tsɪˈɡɑːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables
tzi-gane
IPA
/tsɪˈɡɑːn/
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Hungarian Gypsy (Romani person).

Offensive

Etymology

From the Hungarian cigány via French tzigane, from Byzantine Greek ἀθίγγανος (athínganos, “untouchable”). 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. 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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: cigány, tzigane, ἀθίγγανος

Usage

Inflected Forms

tziganes (plural)

Rhymes With

gone iran pakistan jan dan jean khan juan xi'an san juan milan taiwan

Questions

How do you pronounce tzigane?
The recorded pronunciation is /tsɪˈɡɑːn/.
What does tzigane mean?
A Hungarian Gypsy (Romani person).
Where does tzigane come from?
It is traced to Hungarian.

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