Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a predominantly Muslim people inhabiting northern Nigeria and southern Niger.
- noun A Chadic language spoken by the Hausa, widely used as a trade language in West Africa.
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- noun A
Moslem people living inNigeria and part ofNiger . - noun The
Chadic language spoken by these people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language
- noun a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hausa is a major trade language for much of Nigeria, Niger and beyond.
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TWR broadcasts the good news ½ hour daily in Hausa to Nigeria.
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His people still call the Hausa Muslims ajei, which means “those who trouble us.”
God’s Country 2008
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His people still call the Hausa Muslims ajei, which means “those who trouble us.”
God’s Country 2008
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The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger.
Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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In Africa, I heard original mother tongues, such as Hausa, and Swahili, being spoken, and there I was standing like some little boy, waiting for someone to tell me what had been said; I never will forget how ignorant I felt.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964
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Linguists subscribe to a rather different explanation for the observed similarities: that Berber and Arabic (and all the other languages he listed, and many he doesn't list such as Hausa and Somali) are all descended from a single language, called for convenience Proto-Afroasiatic (Greenberg
Jabal al-Lughat 2009
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The affordability of digital filmmaking, and the popularity of widely distributed videos in English, Yoruba, and Hausa, have made Nigeria a thriving center of film production.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The affordability of digital filmmaking, and the popularity of widely distributed videos in English, Yoruba, and Hausa, have made Nigeria a thriving center of film production.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Boko Haram's name means "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language.
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