Hausa

See also: hausa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊsə/
• Hyphenation: Hau‧sa

• Audio (US):

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Noun

Hausa pl (plural only)

1. A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

Derived terms

• Hausaland

Translations

people

• Arabic: هَوْسَاوَة m (hawsāwa)
• Baatonum: Gambaru
• Catalan: haussa (ca) m or f
• Duala: Muwusa class 1
• Esperanto: haŭsoj pl
• Finnish: hausa (fi)
• Galician: Hausa m or f
• Greek: Χάουσα (Cháousa)
• Hausa: Bahaushe (ha) m, Bahaushiya f, Hausawa (ha)
• Japanese: ハウサ人 (Hausa-jin)
• Nupe: Keńci
• Polish: Hausa (pl)
• Portuguese: hauçá (pt)
• Swahili: Mhausa class 1
• Swedish: hausa (sv) ?
• Tyap: A̱kpat
• Yoruba: Awúsá

Proper noun

Hausa

1. The Chadic language spoken by these people.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 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

• Hausa genet

Translations

language

• Arabic: هَوْسَائِيَّة (ar) f (hawsāʔiyya), هَوْسَا f (hawsā), هَوْسِيَّة f (hawsiyya)
• Armenian: հաուսա (hy) (hausa)
• Asturian: hausa (ast), ḥausa (ast)
• Belarusian: ха́ўса m (xáwsa)
• Bulgarian: ха́уса (háusa)
• Catalan: haussa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豪薩語 / 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 (ha), هَوُس (Hausa)
• Irish: Hásais f
• Japanese: ハウサ語 (ja) (Hausa-go)
• Macedonian: хауса (hausa)
• Moore: zãngoeere
• Polish: hausa (pl) m
• Portuguese: hauçá (pt) m
• Russian: ха́уса (ru) m (xáusa)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Igihawusa
• Slovak: hauština f
• Swahili: Kihausa (sw)
• Swedish: hausa (sv) c
• Turkish: Hausaca (tr)
• Tyap: Kpat (kcg)
• Ukrainian: га́уса (háusa), ха́уса (uk) (xáusa)
• Yoruba: Awúsá

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, ahaus

Hausa

Etymology

Compare hausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /háu.sá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [háu.sə́]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Hausa f

1. Hausa language