Zott is the Arabic term for gypsies.
The Zott were musicians who migrated in great numbers from India to Sassanid Persia under Behram Gour.
Their name was later applied to any itinerant entertainer of Indian origin, and came to be the common name of the Dom people

Dom people

The Dom of the Middle East are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group. Some authors relate them to the Domba people of India.- Culture :...

 in the Middle East, as English gypsy or tinker with contemptuous connotations.
The Al-Qamus Al-Muhit glosses the term as equivalent to Nawar

Nawar

Nawwar or Nawar may refer to:* The arabic family name, Also its a male name.* Name of a famous family in Egypt, subsidizing from Nawwar Pasha in Rashid who had a famous story of gifting the egyptian Khedivie with gold equals to the weight of his daughter to marry his son.Currently most of the...

(singular Nawarī).