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Hausa

Syllables: Hau·sa/ˈhaʊsə/

Hausa noun: a people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

Noun

Hausa pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

Proper noun

Hausa

  1. The Chadic language spoken by these people.
    • 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.2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 191

Hausa meaning in Arabic

Hausa in Arabic

people
هَوْسَاوَة hawsāwa
language
هَوْسَائِيَّة hawsāʔiyya, هَوْسَا hawsā, هَوْسِيَّة hawsiyya

Origin of Hausa

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

Words formed from Hausa

Phrases with Hausa

Questions about Hausa

What does Hausa mean?
Hausa means a people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.
What is Hausa in Arabic?
Hausa in Arabic is هَوْسَاوَة (hawsāwa), هَوْسَائِيَّة (hawsāʔiyya), هَوْسَا (hawsā). See Hausa meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Hausa?
Hausa can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Hausa?
Hausa is pronounced /ˈhaʊsə/.

Words near Hausa in the dictionary

  1. Haurvatat
  2. Haury
  3. Hauryla
  4. Haurys
  5. Haus
  6. Hausa
  7. Hausa genet
  8. Hausa genets
  9. Hausa Sign Language
  10. Hausaist
  11. Hausaists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hausa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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