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Hausa
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hausa
English
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+ language
Etymology
en :bor ha:Hausa + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈhaʊsə/
en Hau sa
en En-us-Hausa.ogg US
Noun
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A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.
Derived terms
en Hausaist Hausaland
Translations
people
Arabic: ar هَوْسَاوَة m
Baatonum: bba Gambaru
Catalan: ca haussa m f
Duala: dua Muwusa 1
Esperanto: eo haŭsoj p
Finnish: fi hausa
Galician: gl Hausa m f
Greek: el Χάουσα
Hausa: ha Bahaushe m, ha Bahaushiya f, ha Hausawa
Japanese: ja ハウサ人 Hausa-jin
Nupe: nup Keńci
Polish: pl Hausa
Portuguese: pt hauçá
Swahili: sw Mhausa 1
Swedish: sv hausa ?
Tyap: kcg A̱kpat
Yoruba: yo Awúsá
Proper noun
The Chadic language spoken by these people.
en 2023 Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa Bloomsbury Circus 191 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.
Derived terms
en Hausa genet
Translations
language
Arabic: ar هَوْسَائِيَّة f, ar هَوْسَا f, ar هَوْسِيَّة f
Armenian: hy հաուսա
Asturian: ast hausa, ast ḥausa
Belarusian: be ха́ўса m
Bulgarian: bg ха́уса
Catalan: ca haussa m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 豪薩語 Háosàyǔ
Czech: cs hauština f
Esperanto: eo haŭsa lingvo
Faroese: fo hausa n
Finnish: fi hausa
French: fr haoussa m
Galician: gl hausa
German: de Hausa n
Hausa: ha Hausa, ha هوس هَوُس Hausa
Irish: ga Hásais f
Japanese: ja ハウサ語 Hausa-go
Macedonian: mk хауса
Moore: mos zãngoeere
Polish: pl hausa m
Portuguese: pt hauçá m
Russian: ru ха́уса m
Rwanda-Rundi: rw Igihawusa
Slovak: sk hauština f
Swahili: sw Kihausa
Swedish: sv hausa c
Turkish: tr Hausaca
Tyap: kcg Kpat
Ukrainian: uk га́уса, uk ха́уса
Yoruba: yo Awúsá
See also
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Further reading
1 hau
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Anagrams
en aahsu Ahaus ahaus
en Ethnonyms Languages
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Etymology
Compare ha hausa.
Pronunciation
hausa
ha Ha-Hausa4.ogg
Proper noun
f Hausa
en Hausa language
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