Hausa

See also: hausa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊsə/
• Hyphenation: Hau‧sa

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Noun

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

Translations

people

• Catalan: haussa m or f
• Finnish: hausa (fi)
• Galician: Hausa m or f
• Greek: Χάουσα (Cháousa)
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• Hausa: Bahaushe m, Bahaushiya f, Hausawa
• Polish: Hausa (pl)
• Swahili: Mhausa

Proper noun

Hausa

1. The Chadic language spoken by these people.

Translations

language

• Arabic: هَوْسَائِيَّة f (hawsāʔiyya), هَوْسَ m (hawsa)
• Armenian: հաուսա (hy) (hausa)
• Asturian: ḥausa (ast)
• Belarusian: ха́ўса m (xáŭsa)
• Bulgarian: ха́уса (háusa)
• Catalan: haussa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豪薩語／豪萨语 (zh) (háosàyǔ), 豪萨语 (zh) (Háosàyǔ)

• Czech: hauština f
• Esperanto: haŭsa lingvo
• Faroese: hausa n
• Finnish: hausa (fi)
• French: haoussa (fr) m
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• Galician: hausa
• German: Hausa (de) n
• Hausa: Hausa, هَوُس (Hausa)
• Irish: Hásais f
• Japanese: ハウサ語 (ja) (Hausa-go)
• Macedonian: хауса (hausa)
• Polish: hausa (pl) m
• Russian: ха́уса (ru) m (xáusa)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Igihawusa
• Slovak: hauština f
• Swahili: Kihausa
• Ukrainian: га́уса (háusa), ха́уса (xáusa)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Hausa terms
• Appendix:Hausa Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Hausa

Further reading

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Anagrams

• ahaus

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Hausa

Etymology

Compare hausa.

Proper noun

Hausa f

1. Hausa language