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Houssa

Houssa is the obsolete form of Hausa.

Meaning of Hausa

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

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Questions about Houssa

What is Houssa the obsolete form of?
Houssa is the obsolete form of Hausa.

Words near Houssa in the dictionary

  1. Housmanian
  2. Housmannian
  3. houso
  4. housos
  5. houss
  6. Houssa
  7. housses
  8. Housset
  9. housties
  10. Houston
  11. Houston black

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Houssa (page history and authors); 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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