Hausa

//ˈhaʊsə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger. plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Chadic language spoken by these people.

    "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."

Synonyms

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englishhaussahaussalanguage

Example

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"I will teach you Hausa and you will teach me Korean."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

Related phrases

Hausa genet

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