What does Cale mean in Spanish?

It is an inflection of calar. It means wet, soak up, drink, soak up, moisten, encountering, bore, try, drilling, measure, apabullar. Cale with tilde means Gypsy or concerning them. Also ancient currency.

From the Spanish verb calar:
cale is:
   1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive

ca�le  Masculine - Noun - Singularcal�  Adjective
  1. Translate "cal�" to English: Gypsy, Romany
    Spanish Synonyms of "cal�": gitano, agitanado, gitanesco, c�ngaro, z�ngaro
    Define meaning of "cal�": Aplicado al individuo de un pueblo n�mada originario de la India y extendido por el mundo, que ha conservado sus peculiaridades raciales y sus costumbres. ; Propio de lo/as gitano/as, individuos de un pueblo n�mada originario de la India y extendido por el mundo, que ha conservado sus peculiaridades raciales y sus costumbres.

ca�lar  Verb
Plural: calares
calar  Adjective

Verb Conjugation for "calar"


yo

t�

�l/ella/usted

nosotros

vosotros

ellos/ustedes

calo

calas

cala

calamos

cal�is

calan

cal�

calaste

cal�

calamos

calasteis

calaron

calar�

calar�s

calar�

calaremos

calar�is

calar�n

Conceptually-related expressions of "calar"

Empresario se lanza contra Felippo y Calé

Empresario se lanza contra Felippo y Calé. Roberto Espínola, propietario de la conocida Sastrería Robert, cuestionó al empresario Eduardo Felippo por ... «ÚltimaHora.com, Jul 16»

Calé sobre juicio a ministros: “Yo dejaría sin quorum”

El senador Juan Carlos “Calé” Galaverna manifestó que es partidario de dejar sin quorum todas las sesiones de juicio político al ministro de la Corte Sindulfo ... «Hoy - Noticas de Paraguay y el Mundo., Apr 16»

Una boda muy calé con Aburto como 'padrino'

Una boda muy calé con Aburto como 'padrino' ... su papel para ofrecer generosamente un lugar para acoger la boda calé más esperada de la televisión vasca. «Deia, Feb 16»

Remueven a la jefa de RRHH y Calé apunta a Wapenka

Remueven a la jefa de RRHH y Calé apunta a Wapenka. La directora de Recursos Humanos (RRHH) del Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral (TSJE), Nilda ... «ÚltimaHora.com, Feb 16»

ANR sin plata: “Calé” llama “amarretes” a colorados “mega-ricos”

El senador disidente Juan Carlos “Calé” Galaverna llamó “amarretes y avaros” a los colorados “mega-ricos” que se enriquecieron durante administraciones ... «Hoy - Noticas de Paraguay y el Mundo., Jan 16»

Cena entre Calé, Marito y periodistas “amigos” genera roncha en ...

Estuvieron los parlamentarios Calé Galaverna, Enrique Bacchetta y Desireé Masi. El evento causó roncha entre en los periodistas ya que algunos prefirieron no ... «Hoy - Noticas de Paraguay y el Mundo., Dec 15»

Derrota de Nano en Ypacaraí "frustra" el cumpleaños de Calé

Derrota de Nano en Ypacaraí "frustra" el cumpleaños de Calé. Eran otros tiempos cuando las fastuosas celebraciones del cumpleaños del polémico senador ... «ÚltimaHora.com, Nov 15»

Dura derrota: Hijo de Calé pierde en su feudo

Dura derrota: Hijo de Calé pierde en su feudo. Juan Carlos "Nano" Galaverna, el hijo del verborrágico senador colorado, perdió las elecciones en la ciudad de ... «ÚltimaHora.com, Nov 15»

La Calé: el sol alimenta su propuesta eco-amigable

Luego de manejar miles de kilómetros con su 'food truck' -empezó en San Bartolo el verano del año pasado- el ingeniero industrial transformado en cocinero ... «El Comercio, Sep 14»

Video sexual de senador paraguayo, Juan Carlos "Calé" Galaverna en orgía. Un video del senador Juan Carlos Galaverna participando de un encuentro ... «StarMedia, Aug 14»

We offer online video tutorials exposing world language teachers to the best practices of the profession, in addition to in-person workshops on proficiency, curriculum planning, and a variety of topics.

The Romani in Spain, generally known by the exonym gitanos (Spanish pronunciation: [xiˈtanos]) or the endonym Calé,[6] belong to the Iberian Cale Romani subgroup, with smaller populations in Portugal (known as ciganos) and in Southern France. Their sense of identity and cohesion stems from their shared value system, expressed among the gitanos as the leyes gitanas ('Gypsy laws').[7][8]

Traditionally, they maintain their social circles strictly within their patrigroups, as interaction between patrigroups increases the risk of feuding, which may result in fatalities.[9] The emergence of Pentecostalism has impacted this practice, as the lifestyle of Pentecostal gitanos involves frequent contact with gitanos from outside their own patrigroups during church services and meetings. Data on ethnicity are not collected in Spain, although the public pollster CIS estimated in 2007 that the number of gitanos present in Spain is probably around one million.

The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano[10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate Egyptians proper from Gypsys. Meanwhile, the term egiptano evolved through elision into egitano and finally into gitano, losing the meaning of Egyptian and carrying with it a specific meaning of Romanis in Spain. The two peoples are now unambiguously differentiated in modern Spanish, "egipcios" for Egyptians and "gitanos" for Roma in Spain, with "egiptano" being obsolete for either.

Though etymologically the term gitano originally meant "Egyptian",[11] the use itself of the Old Spanish word meaning "Egyptian" (egiptano) to refer to Romanis in Spain developed in the same way that the English word "Gypsy" also evolved from the English adjective "Egyptian" to refer to Romanis in Britain. Some Romanis, a people originating in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, upon their first arrivals to Europe, either claimed to be Egyptians for a more favourable treatment by local Europeans, or were mistaken as Egyptians by local Europeans.

Identity[edit]

The group's identity is particularly complex in Spain for a variety of reasons which are examined below. Nevertheless, it can be safely said that both from the perspective of gitano and non-gitano (payo) Spaniards, individuals generally considered to belong to this ethnicity are those of full or near-full gitano descent and who also self-identify as such. A confusing element is the thorough hybridization of Andalusian and Roma culture (and some would say identity) at a popular level. This has occurred to the point where Spaniards from other regions of Spain can commonly mistake elements of one for the other. The clearest example of this is flamenco music and Sevillanas, art forms that are Andalusian rather than gitano in origin but, having been strongly marked by gitanos in interpretative style, is now commonly associated to this ethnicity by many Spaniards.[citation needed] The fact that the largest population of gitanos is concentrated in Southern Spain[12] has even led to a confusion between gitano accents and those typical of Southern Spain[citation needed] even though many Kale populations in the northern half of Spain (such as Galicia) do not speak Andalusian Spanish.[citation needed]

Indeed, the boundaries among gitano and non-gitano ethnicities are so blurred by intermarriage and common cultural traits in the south of the country,[citation needed] that self-identification is on occasion the only real marker for ethnicity. Few Spaniards are aware, for example, that Andalusian singer and gitano popular icon Lola Flores was, in fact, not of gitano ethnicity and did not consider herself as such.[13] The mistake can be commonly attributed to her being a Flamenco singer of humble origin, with a strong Andalusian accent, her vaguely South Asian features as well as to her having married into a gitano family.

The term "gitano" has also acquired among many a negative socio-economic connotation referring to the lowest strata of society, sometimes linking it to crime and marginality and even being used as a term of abuse. In this, one can be gitano "by degree" according to how much one fits into pre-conceived stereotypes or social stigmas.

On the other hand, the exaltation of Roma culture and heritage is a large element of wider Andalusian folklore and Spanish identity. Gitanos, rather than being considered a "foreign" or "alien" minority within the country, are perceived as "deep" or "real Spain", as is expressed by the term "España Cañí" which means both "Gypsy Spain" and "Traditional" or "Folkloric Spain". This is largely the result of the period of romantic nationalism which followed the Spanish War of Independence, during which the values of the Enlightenment arriving from Western Europe were rejected and Calé became the symbol of Spanish traditionalism, independence and racial consciousness.

The Romani people originate from northwestern Hindustan,[14][15][16][17][18][19] presumably from the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan[18][19] and the Punjab region shared between India and Pakistan.[18]

The linguistic evidence has indisputably shown that roots of Romani language lie in the Indian subcontinent: the language has grammatical characteristics of Indic languages and shares with them a big part of the basic lexicon, for example, body parts, daily routines[20] and numerals.

More exactly, Romani shares the basic lexicon with Hindi and Punjabi. It shares many phonetic features with Marwari, while its grammar is closest to Bengali.[21] Linguistic evaluation carried out in the nineteenth century by Pott (1845) and Miklosich (1882–1888) showed that the Romani language is to be classed as a New Indo-Aryan language (NIA), not a Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA), establishing that the ancestors of the Romani could not have left the Indian subcontinent significantly earlier than AD 1000, then finally reaching Europe several hundred years later.

Genetic findings in 2012 suggest the Romani originated in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent and migrated as a group.[15][16][22] According to a genetic study in 2012, the ancestors of present scheduled tribes and scheduled caste populations of northern India, traditionally referred to collectively as the "Ḍoma", are the likely ancestral populations of modern "Roma" in Europe.[23]

Migration to Spain[edit]

How and when the Romani arrived in the Iberian Peninsula from Northern India is a question whose consensus is far from being reached. A popular theory, although without any documentation, claims they came from North Africa, from where they would have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to meet again in France with the northern migratory route.[24] Thus, gitanos would be a deformation of Latin Tingitani, that is, from Tingis, today Tangier. Another, more consistent theory, and well documented, is that they entered the Iberian Peninsula from France. Although there is controversy of the date of the first arrival, since there is evidence of a safe conduct granted in Perpignan in 1415 by the infante Alfonso of Aragon to one Tomás, son of Bartolomé de Sanno, who is said to be "Indie Majoris".[25] Or instead, could be the so-called Juan de Egipto Menor, who entered through France, who in 1425 Alfonso V granted him a letter of insurance, which is mostly accepted as the first Romani person to reach the peninsula.[26]

... As our beloved and devoted Don Juan de Egipto Menor ... understands that he must pass through some parts of our kingdoms and lands, and we want him to be well treated and welcomed ... under pain of our wrath and indignation ... the mentioned Don Juan de Egipto and those who will go with him and accompany him, with all their horses, clothes, goods, gold, silver, saddlebags and whatever else they bring with them, let them go, stay and go through any city, town, place and other parts of our lordship safe and secure ... and giving those safe passage and being driven when the aforementioned don Juan requires it through this present safe conduct ... Delivered in Zaragoza with our seal on January 12 of the year of birth of our Lord 1425. King Alfonso.

In 1435 they were seen in Santiago de Compostela. Gitanos were recorded in Barcelona and Zaragoza by 1447,[27] and in 1462 they were received with honors in Jaén. Years later, to the gitanos, the grecianos, pilgrims who penetrated the Mediterranean shore in the 1480s, were added to them, probably because of the fall of Constantinople. Both of them continued to wander throughout the peninsula, being well received at least until 1493, year in which a group of gitanos arrived at Madrid, where the Council agreed to "... give alms to the gitanos because at the request of the City passed ahead, ten reales, to avoid the damages that could be done by three hundred people who came ... ".

In those years safe conducts were granted to supposedly noble Calé pilgrims. The follow-up of these safe-conducts throughout Spain has provided some data to historians according to Teresa San Román:

  • The number of Romani that entered or inhabited the Peninsula in the 15th-century is estimated at approximately 3,000 individuals.
  • The Roma traveled in variable groups, of 80-150 people, led by a man.
  • Each autonomous group maintained relations at a distance with one of the others, there being perhaps relations of kinship among them (something common today among Spanish Romani).
  • The separation between each group was variable and sometimes some followed the others at close range and by the same routes.
  • The most common survival strategy was to present as Christian pilgrims to seek the protection of a noble.
  • The way of life was nomadic and dedicated to divination and performance (spectacle).

In 1492, the Roma auxiliaries helped the army of the Kingdom of Castile and León in the Reconquista in Granada ending the reign of Muslims in Spain.[28]

Gitanos have a low and little politically committed role, with some particular exceptions, in Andalusian nationalism and identity, which is strongly based on a belief in the oriental basis of Andalusi heritage acted as a bridge between occidental-western and oriental-eastern Andalusian culture at a popular level. The father of such a movement, Blas Infante, in his book Orígenes de lo flamenco y secreto del cante jondo, etymologically, went as far as alleging that the word flamenco derives from Andalusian Arabic fellah mengu, supposedly meaning "escapee peasant". Infante believed that numerous Muslim Andalusians became Moriscos, who were obliged to convert, dispersed and eventually ordered to leave Spain stayed and mixed with the Romani newcomers instead of abandoning their land. These claims have been rejected by many historians[citation needed] and genetic research papers.[29]

For about 300 years, Romanies were subject to a number of laws and policies designed to eliminate them from Spain as an identifiable group: Romani settlements were broken up and the residents dispersed; sometimes, Romanies were required to marry non-Roma; they were prohibited from using their language and rituals, and were excluded from public office and from guild membership.[30] In 1749, a major effort to get rid of the Calé population in Spain was carried out through a raid organized by the government.[31] It arrested all Calé (Romani) in the realm, and imprisoned them in jails, eventually releasing them due to the widespread discontent that the measure caused.[citation needed]

During the Spanish Civil War, gitanos were not persecuted for their ethnicity by either side.[32] Under the regime of Francisco Franco, gitanos were often harassed or simply ignored, although their children were educated, sometimes forcibly, much as all Spaniards are nowadays.[33] On the other hand, Andalusian and gitano culture was instrumentalized in the country's tourist promotion strategy which focused on the south to exalt the uniqueness of Spanish culture.[citation needed] However, the country's industrialization negatively affected gitanos as the migration of rural Spaniards to major cities led to the growth of shanty towns around urban areas with a consequent explosion in birth rates and a drastic fall in the quality of living and an abandonment of traditional professions.[citation needed] Traditional gitano neighbourhoods such as Triana in Seville became gentrified and gitanos were slowly pushed out to the periphery and these new shanty towns.[citation needed]

In the post-Franco era, Spanish government policy has been much more sympathetic, especially in the area of social welfare and social services.[30] In 1977, the last anti-Romani laws were repealed, an action promoted by Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia, the first Romani deputy.[30]

Beginning in 1983, the government operated a special program of Compensatory Education to promote educational rights for the disadvantaged, including those in Romani communities.[30] During the heroin epidemic that afflicted Spain in the 1980s and 1990s, gitano shanty towns became central to the drug trade, a problem which afflicts Spain to this day.[34] Although the size of shanty towns has been vastly reduced in Madrid, they remain significant in other major cities such as Seville, Huelva and Almería.[citation needed] Nevertheless, Spain is still considered a model for integration of gitano communities when compared to other countries with Romani populations in Eastern Europe.[35]

Language[edit]

Historically, gitanos spoke Caló fluently, often alongside the language spoken in the region they inhabited. Caló is a type of para-Romani, combining the phonology and grammar of the Catalan or Castilian, with a lexicon derived from Romani. The para-Romani resulting from the combination of Basque and Romani is called Erromintxela. Very few gitanos maintain a comprehensive and functional knowledge of Caló. A study on the actual usage patterns of Caló among a group of mainly Andalusian gitanos concluded that the language currently consists of between 350 and 400 unique terms, the knowledge of which varies considerably among gitanos. This would exclude a similar number of Calo words which have entered mainstream Spanish slang. According to the authors of the study, the majority of gitanos acknowledge that the language is in a terminal state, with many asserting that the language is totally lost.[36]

Religion[edit]

In Spain, gitanos were traditionally Roman Catholics who participated in four of the Church's sacraments (baptism, marriage, confirmation, and extreme unction). They are not regular churchgoers[citation needed] but follow traditions such as the cult of the Virgin of El Rocío. In 1997, Pope John Paul II beatified the Catholic gitano martyr Ceferino Giménez Malla, in a ceremony reportedly attended by some 3000 Roma.[37] Sara-la-Kali is the patron saint of Romani people.

They rarely go to folk healers, and they participate fully in Spain's state-supported medical system. Gitanos have a special involvement with recently dead kin and visit their graves frequently. They spend more money than non-gitanos of equivalent economic classes in adorning grave sites.[38]

The Spanish New-Protestant/New-Born Federation (mostly composed by members of the Assemblies of God and Pentecostal) claims that 150,000 gitanos have joined their faith in Spain.[39][citation needed] The Romani Evangelical Assembly is the only religious institution entirely led and composed by Roma. The gitano Evangelical church (Iglesia de Filadelfia) asserts the gitano people originate from a group of Jews who got lost during Moses' lifetime and eventually became the gitanos.[40]

Marriage[edit]

The traditional Spanish Romani place a high value on the extended family. Virginity is essential in unmarried women. Both men and women often marry young.

A traditional gitano wedding requires a pedimiento (similar to an engagement party) followed by the casamiento (wedding ceremony), where el yeli must be sung to the bride to celebrate the virginity and honour of the bride (proven by the ritual of the pañuelo). In the pañuelo ritual, a group consisting of an ajuntaora (a professional who is skilled in performing the ritual and is paid by the family), along with the married women of the family, take the bride into a separate room during the wedding and examine her to ascertain that she is a virgin. The ajuntaora is the one who performs the ritual on the bride, as the other women watch to be witnesses that the bride is virgin. The ajuntaora wraps a white, decoratively embroidered cloth (the pañuelo) around her index finger and inserts it shallowly into the vaginal canal of the bride.[41] During this process, the Bartholin's glands are depressed, causing them to secrete a liquid that stains the cloth. This action is repeated with three different sections of the cloth to produce three stains, known as "rosas". This process is conceived by the women as the retrieval of the bride's "honra", her honour, contained within a "grape" inside her genitals which is popped during the examination, and the spillage collected onto the pañuelo.[42]

When finished with the exam, the women come out of the room and sing el yeli to the couple. During this, the men at the wedding rip their shirts and lift the wife onto their shoulders and do the same with the husband, as they sing "el yeli" to them. Weddings can last very long; up to three days is usual in Gitano culture. At weddings, gitanos invite everyone and anyone that they know of (especially other gitanos). On some occasions, payos (gadjos) may attend as well, although this is not common. Through the night, many bulerías are danced and especially sung. Today, rumba gitana or rumba flamenca are a usual party music fixture.

Gitanos may also marry by elopement, an event that garners less approval than a wedding ceremony.[43]

Crime issues[edit]

According to a website of the Fundación Secretariado Gitano ("Gitano Secretariat Foundation"), published in 2002,[44] in the Spanish prison system the Spanish Romani women represented 25% of the incarcerated female population, while Spanish Romani people represented 1.4% of the total Spanish population. In Portugal, 64% of the detentions of gitano people were drug trafficking-related, 93.2% of women inmates for drug trafficking were gitanas, and 13.2% of the total drug trafficking-related inmates were of gitano ethnicity.[45][better source needed]

Marginalisation[edit]

Marginalisation occurs on an institutional level. Gitano children are regularly segregated from their non-gitano peers and have poorer academic outcomes.[46] In 1978, 68% of adult gitanos were illiterate.[47] Literacy has greatly improved over time, and approximately 10% of gitanos were illiterate as of 2006-2007 (with older gitanos much more likely than younger gitanos to be illiterate).[48] Ninety-eight percent of gitanos live below the poverty line.[49] Health outcomes and housing - including reduced access to clean water and electricity supplies - is poorer amongst Roma compared to non-Roma in Spain and Portugal, in common with the other surveyed European countries.[46]

Roma continue to experience discrimination on an interpersonal level, such as by being refused entry to bars and clubs or losing their jobs if their ethnicity is made known to their employer. In 2016, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reported that its survey showed 71 percent of Portuguese cigano, and 51 percent of Spanish gitano had suffered an episode of discrimination within the previous five years.[46] A traditional discriminatory practice in Portugal, where shops and businesses display toad figurines at entrances to dissuade ciganos from entering, was reported as being still widely seen in Portugal in 2019. (Toads are viewed as symbolic of evil and ill-omen in Roma communities in Portugal.) Ciganos and anti-discrimination activists complained of hostility to Roma being commonplace and unremarkable. Some shopkeepers were noted as defending their discouragement of Roma as appropriate.[50][51]

The 2016 Pew Research poll found that 49% of Spaniards held unfavorable views of Roma.[52]

In literature[edit]

The gitano in Spanish society have inspired several authors:

The Roma is the most basic, most profound, the most aristocratic of my country, as representative of their way and whoever keeps the flame, blood, and the alphabet of the universal Andalusian truth.

Music and dance[edit]

Spanish Roma contributed to flamenco. Many famous Spanish flamenco musicians are of Romani ethnicity.

Notable gitanos[edit]

Following are notable Spanish people of Calé (gitano) ethnicity:

Leaders and politicians[edit]

Historians, philologists and writers[edit]

Poets, novelists and playwrights[edit]

Catholic saints and martyrs[edit]

Painters and sculptors[edit]

Other athletes[edit]

Singers and musicians[edit]

Gitano surnames[edit]

Due to endogamy, several Spanish surnames are more frequent among the Gitanos,[53][54] though they are not exclusive to them:

What is Cale in English?

cale f (plural cales) (obsolete) immersion (in water) hold (of a ship) slipway.

What does calie mean in Spanish?

Colloquial. calié [m] DO. gossipy person.

What does Cici mean in Spanish?

titty {noun} [coll.]

What is Kiki Spanish?

n slang for sexual intercourse Synonyms: casquete, follada, follaje, jodedera, jodienda, polvo Type of: ayuntamiento, coito, concúbito, congreso, copulación, cópula, parentela.