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Hausa   /hˈaʊsə/   Listen
Hausa

noun
1.
A member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria.  Synonym: Haussa.
2.
The chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language.  Synonym: Haussa.






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"Hausa" Quotes from Famous Books



... distinct groups; in the north and center: Arabs, Gorane (Toubou, Daza, Kreda), Zaghawa, Kanembou, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Boulala, and Maba, most of whom are Muslim; in the south: Sara (Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye), Moundang, Moussei, Massa, most of whom are Christian or animist; about 1,000 French ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... and the first two games fell to him and his partner owing to a certain wildness in the returns of Princess Pongo, a Nigerian lady of remarkable agility who has only been playing tennis for the last three months, as, owing to the laws of the Hausa tribe, mixed tennis is strictly forbidden in Nigeria. The Princess was, however, well backed up by her partner, the Baron von Stosch, an athletic Prussian with a powerful smash, and after five games all had been called the set fell to the ex-PREMIER and his partner. In the second set a regrettable ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 • Various



Words linked to "Hausa" :   West Chadic, Nigerian, Haussa



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