Question 1

What is the plural of the French word "roumi"?

Accepted Answer

roumis

Question 2

What words are synonyms of the French word "roumi"?

Accepted Answer

<ul><li>toubab</li></ul>

Question 3

What does "roumi" mean in French?

Accepted Answer

A term used in Arabic historiography to designate a Byzantine Greek, and which later came to designate all non-Muslim Europeans.
A white man of European type and non-Muslim, in the language of North African Muslims.

Question 4

Where does the French word "roumi" come from?

Accepted Answer

from the Arabic رومي rūmī (European, Christian), a term designating a European and literally meaning "Roman". A Byzantine Greek would qualify himself as ρωμαίος romaios, as a worthy heir of the Roman Empire. The Arabs took up the qualifier, which became generalized in the Muslim countries of the Mediterranean and eventually came to designate all Europeans or Christians (interchangeably). (1667) rumy.

Question 5

How to translate "roumi" into english?

Accepted Answer

Rumi

roumi

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