Rohingya

American  

[roh-hin-juh, roh-hin-guh] / roʊˈhɪn dʒə, roʊˈhɪn gə /

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.

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adjective

1. relating to the Rohingya or their language.

   Music is deeply rooted in Rohingya culture.

Etymology

Origin of Rohingya

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

Example Sentences

For Rohingya refugees like Shah Alam, the journey is extremely dangerous.

From Slate

On Feb. 26, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar who spoke little English, was found dead on a street in Buffalo, New York.

From Salon

The family are Arakan Rohingya refugees, he added.

From BBC

A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against the country's prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against the Rohingya minority.

From Barron's

On Friday, Hlaning told the ICJ that "Myanmar was not obliged to remain idle and allow terrorists to have free reign of northern Rakhine states", where the majority of Rohingya lived.

From BBC