''Zott'' ( ar, زط; singular ''Zottī'') is the Arabic term for
gypsies,
Romani people, and
Dom people. The Zott were musicians who migrated in great numbers from northern India to the
Middle East about 1000 years ago. Their name was later applied to any itinerant entertainer of Indian origin; and came to be the common name of the Dom people in the Middle East, as English ''
gypsy'' or ''tinker'' with contemptuous connotations. The ''
Al-Qamus Al-Muhit'' glosses the term as equivalent to ''
Nawar'' (singular ''Nawarī'').
See also
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Jats
The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...
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Jat of Afghanistan
There are several ethnic groups in Afghanistan which traditionally lead a peripatetic life. This means they are nomadic and their main occupations centre around providing services to the settled populations they travel among, like peddling particul ...
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Nawar
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Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
References
*M. J. de Goeie, ''A Contribution to the History of the Gypsies'', Amsterdam (1875
2007 reprint
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Dom in Asia
Dom people
Indian diaspora
Nawar people
Nomadic groups in Eurasia
Pakistani diaspora
Romani in Iran
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