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- IPA(key): /má.fá.ɽíː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [mə́.ɸə́.ɽíː]
mafárī m (plural mafàrai, possessed form mafárin)
- origin, beginning
- reason, cause
- Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 144.