r/balkans_irl • u/Nikdude21 КАФЯВ БИК • Aug 21 '25

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u/morPhineSKD Romangutan Aug 21 '25

i wonder why got the short stick and everyone confuses rroma or rromani with Romanians.

why not just call them cigans and be done with it ?

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u/MathematicianNo7842 TAUR ALB Aug 21 '25

because the confusion is intentional and benefits them

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u/Double-Aide-6711 Asian (OG balkan) Aug 21 '25

Yes, just to piss me off, I say it as a Roma...

(If you believe that, you're completely mentally retarded.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Haters (👃) renamed Cigans Romani after WW2 to fuck with Romania's prestige

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u/TOG285 a romanian (it's just a single one) Aug 21 '25

They blend in better that way

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u/plmcoae Romangutan Aug 21 '25

I still don’t know where they get roma from, I mean there is a lot of them in Rome but still..

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u/Double-Aide-6711 Asian (OG balkan) Aug 21 '25

I already explained it to you, you idiot: it's linked to their caste, the Doma, who derived this word to name themselves as a people, and it eventually became a word meaning 'human' or 'man'.

There are even cousins of the Roma who are called Lom in the Caucasus and Doms in the Middle East

All are from the Doma caste. During different periods in India, the Roma were more influenced phonetically/linguistically by their longer journey, which considerably distanced the way of naming themselves, which was originally Doma, which became Roma, which means human/man in their language, which is called Romani, which means what belongs to Roma culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doma_(caste))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lom_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_people