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Hausa

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See also: hausa

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhaʊsə/
  • Hyphenation: Hau‧sa
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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Hausa pl (plural only)

  1. A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

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Proper noun

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Hausa

  1. The Chadic language spoken by these people.
    • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 191:
      She tells me she’s been intensively studying Hausa these past weeks, that it’s such a unique and precise language, one that you write the way you speak it, very historical and more Arabian than she’d thought.

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Hausa

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Etymology

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Compare hausa.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Hausa f

  1. Hausa language