Hausa

See also: hausa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊsə/
Hyphenation: Hau‧sa
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

Hausa pl (plural only)

A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

Translations

people

Catalan: haussa m or f
Finnish: hausa (fi)
Galician: Hausa m or f
Greek: Χάουσα (Cháousa)

Hausa: Bahaushe m, Bahaushiya f, Hausawa
Polish: Hausa (pl)
Swahili: Mhausa

Proper noun

Hausa

The Chadic language spoken by these people.

Translations

language

Arabic: هَوْسَائِيَّة‎ f (hawsāʾiyya), هَوْسَ‎ m (hawsa)
Armenian: հաուսա (hy) (hausa)
Asturian: ḥausa (ast)
Belarusian: хаўса m (xaŭsa)
Bulgarian: хауса (háusa)
Catalan: haussa m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 豪薩語 (zh), 豪萨语 (zh) (Háosàyǔ)
Czech: hauština f
Esperanto: haŭsa lingvo
Faroese: hausa n
Finnish: hausa (fi)
French: haoussa (fr) m

Galician: hausa
German: Hausa (de) n
Hausa: Hausa, هَوُس‎ (Hausa)
Irish: Hásais f
Japanese: ハウサ語 (ja) (Hausa-go)
Macedonian: хауса (hausa)
Polish: hausa (pl) m
Russian: ха́уса (ru) m (xáusa)
Rwanda-Rundi: Igihawusa
Slovak: hauština f
Swahili: Kihausa
Ukrainian: гауса (hausa), хауса (xausa)

See also

Wiktionary's coverage of Hausa terms

Appendix:Hausa Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Hausa

Further reading

ISO 639-3 code hau (SIL)

Ethnologue entry for Hausa, hau

Anagrams

ahaus

Hausa

Etymology

Compare hausa.

Proper noun

Hausa f

Hausa language

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