- IPA(key): /mà.(t)sʼá.làː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [mə̀.sʼə́.làː]
màtsalā̀ f (plural màtsalōlī, possessed form màtsalàr̃)
- problem, affair, obstacle
- Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 153.