kaciya

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Hausa[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably borrowed from Kanuri kàjá (“circumcision”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /kàː.t͡ʃí.jàː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kàː.t͡ʃɪ́.jàː]

Noun[edit]

kā̀ciyā̀ f (possessed form kā̀ciyàr̃)

circumcision

References[edit]

Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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