Definitions for Hausa

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Hausa Hau·sa

Spelling: [hou-sah, -suh, -zuh]

IPA: /ˈhaʊ sɑ, -sə, -zə/

Hausa is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Hausa (aahsu).

Definitions for Hausa

noun

1. a member of an indigenous people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger whose culture has been strongly influenced by Islam.
2. the language of the Hausa people, belonging to the Chadic branch of the Afroasiatic family, widely used in Africa as a language of commerce.

Examples for Hausa

Chika, a well-to-do young Igbo woman, has been pulled to safety in a deserted shop by a Hausa Muslim woman.

He talks Arabic, and Hausa, and krooboy palaver as well as I do.

The scouts were called in; and the Hausa company set off, in fours, along the path.

Waziri nodded, and supplied the Hausa phrase for this skill.

It has been erroneously stated that the Fula imposed Mahommedanism on the Hausa states.

Your Hausa man—Hudson his name is—urged us to push on this far.

In ancient times the province of Katagum formed the debateable country between Bornu and the Hausa states.

Beriberi (or Berberi) is the name given them by the Hausa (see Bornu).

The Fula, as also most of the Hausa, are Moslems, the other tribes are pagans.

A Hausa sergeant challenged from the launch, and the reply came in his own tongue.