ロマン
Japanese
noun
Definitions
- dream, ideal
- a novel
- romance
Etymology
Borrowed from French roman (novel, epic, a medieval romance).
Origin
French
roman
Gloss
novel, epic, a medieval romance
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- romanus Latin
- Bildungsroman German
- Roman German
- roman Dutch, Flemish
- radioroman French
- roman French
- romancier French
- romaniser French
- рома́н Russian
- роман Russian
- roman Norwegian Bokmål
- roman Norwegian Nynorsk
- romanz Old French
- romano Esperanto
- roman Serbo-Croatian
- roman Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- رمان Persian
- roman Turkish
- ראָמאַן Yiddish
- រ៉ូម៉ង់ Central Khmer