Irish Traveller

English

Alternative forms

• Irish Traveler

Noun

Irish Traveller (plural Irish Travellers)

1. (Ireland) A member of an indigenous nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland, the Pavee.

Synonyms

• Gypsy (“the Pavee are not descendants of the Romani”) (proscribed)
• Minkier (endonym)
• Pavee, pavee (derogatory, endonym)
• Pikey, pikey (derogatory)
• Pikie, pikie (derogatory)
• Traveler
• Traveller

Hypernyms

• Caucasian
• Caucasoid
• Celt
• European
• Gael
• Irish

Coordinate terms

• Shelta (the language of the Irish Travellers)

Translations

member of a minority in Ireland

• Arabic: رُحَّل أَيِرْلَنْدِيُون (ruḥḥal ʔayirlandiyūn), اَلرُّحَّل اَلْأَيِرْلَنْدِيُون (ar-ruḥḥal al-ʔayirlandiyūn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛爾蘭流浪者 / 爱尔兰流浪者 (ÀIěrlán liúlàng-zhě)

• Finnish: kiertolainen (fi)
• Hebrew: נַוָּדִים אִירִים (navadim irim)
• Irish: duine den lucht siúil m, taistealaí m
• Japanese: アイリッシュ・トラヴェラー (airisshu•toraverā), パヴィー (pavī)
• Korean: 아일랜드 유랑민 (aillaendeu yurangmin)
• Russian: ирла́ндские путеше́ственники (irlándskije putešéstvenniki)