Rohingya

[ roh-hin-juh, roh-hin-guh ]

noun

1. a member of a predominantly Islamic, Indic-speaking people of western coastal Myanmar, constituting an ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority in that country.
2. the Indic language of the Rohingya, unrelated to the Tibeto-Burman language Burmese, the official language of Myanmar.

adjective

1. relating to the Rohingya or their language:

   Music is deeply rooted in Rohingya culture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rohingya¹

First recorded in 1960–65; a self-designation of the Rohingya people

Example Sentences

Is he still smarting after nearly a decade of nonstop scandal, from Russian psy-ops to Cambridge Analytica to the Facebook Papers to the inaction on Trump’s “looting and shooting” rhetoric to Facebook’s role in enabling genocidal violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar?

From Slate

The MSF clinic operating in Bangladesh has said it saw a big surge in wounded Rohingya in the days that followed – half of the injured were women and children.

From BBC

He also accused Rohingya activists of staging the massacre and falsely accusing the AA.

From BBC

Most of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims live as a minority in Rakhine – a Buddhist-majority state, where the two communities have long had a fraught relationship.

From BBC

He broke down, pleading for help: “Tens of thousands of Rohingya are under threat here. If you can, please save us.”

From BBC