daƙiƙa

See also: dakika

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic دَقِيقَة (daqīqa, “minute”), as a result of a coinage in the 1970s by the Hausa Language Board.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dà.kʼíː.kʼàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [də̀.cʼíː.kʼàː]

Noun

dàƙīƙā̀ f (plural dāƙīƙōƙī, possessed form dàƙīƙàr̃)

1. second (unit of time)

References

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41.