Zott
Zott (Arabic: زط; singular Zottī) is the Arabic term for Romani (also known as Gypsies) and Dom peoples. 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. Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ glosses the term as equivalent to Nawar (singular Nawarī).[1]
It is believed the term is derived from Zuṭṭ (in turn Arabicised from Jat),[2] with the Zott being at least partially descended from the medieval Zuṭṭ.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Kenrick, Donald (2004). Gypsies: From the Ganges to the Thames. University of Hertfordshire Press. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-1-902806-23-5.
- ↑ Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1976). The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld: The Banū Sāsān in Arabic Society and Literature. Leiden: Brill. p. 170. ISBN 978-90-04-04392-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ Richardson, Kristina (2021). Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-78453-731-9.
Further reading
[edit]- M. J. de Goeie, A Contribution to the History of the Gypsies, Amsterdam (1875, 2007 reprint)
- Hanifi, M. Jamil (December 15, 2008). "JĀT". Encyclopedia Iranica.
- Amanolahi, Sekandar (1999). "The Gypsies of Iran (A Brief Introduction)". Iran & the Caucasus. 3/4: 109–118. doi:10.1163/157338499X00065. JSTOR 4030769.
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