Rohingya


Ro·hin·gya

R5311750 (rō-hĭn′jə)n. Rohingya or Ro·hin·gyas 1. A Muslim people of southwest coastal Myanmar.2. The Indic language of the Rohingya.
[From Rohingya Ruáaingya, ethnic self-designation; akin to Bengali Rohiṅga, ultimately from Rohāṅga, Bengali name of the late medieval and early modern kingdom of Arakan in what is now southwest coastal Myanmar; probably akin to Arakanese (Tibeto-Burman language of Arakan) rakhuing, Arakan, and Aracan, the name of Arakan that begins to appear in many European languages in the 1500s with the expansion of European maritime power.]
Ro·hin′gya adj.