/tsi gahn"/ , adj.
1. ( often l.c. ) of, consisting of, or pertaining to Gypsies: Tzigane music.
n.
2. a Gypsy, esp. a Hungarian one.
[ 1880-85; tzigane, prob. cigány, akin to G Zigeuner, Rumanian tigan, Serbo-Croatian cìganin, Bulg tsíganin, all ult. a ) tsínganos, earlier athínganos member of a heretical sect of Phrygia, perh. lit., "untouchable, inviolable" (Gk a- A- 6 + -thinganos, deriv. of thingánein to touch) ]