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

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

More than a million Rohingya refugees now live across the border in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar region alone - some of the largest and most densely populated camps in the world, according to the UN's refugee agency.

From BBC

The 1948 UN Genocide Convention, which The Gambia accuses Myanmar of breaching in its treatment of the Rohingya, was adopted following the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

From BBC

It had much less resonance inside Myanmar, but many younger opposition activists are now willing to condemn how she handled the Rohingya crisis.

From BBC

ICJ judges are hearing three weeks of testimony as they weigh accusations by The Gambia that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya in a 2017 crackdown.

From Barron's