Hausa

Hau·sa
H4A1U1S1A1
/ˈhaʊsə/

noun

A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

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Haussa
OriginHausa Hausa →
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Meanings

nounHausa pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyA people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.
proper noun
  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

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria

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Haussa
Broader
Nigerian

nounthe chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language

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Haussa
Broader
West Chadic

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. HausaHausa
  2. HausaHausa
  3. EnglishHausa

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

More words from Hausa

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Translations

Arabic هَوْسَاوَة, هَوْسَائِيَّة
  • هَوْسَاوَة (hawsāwa)people
  • هَوْسَائِيَّة (hawsāʔiyya)language
  • هَوْسَا (hawsā)language
  • هَوْسِيَّة (hawsiyya)language
Bulgarian ха́уса
  • ха́уса (háusa)language
Catalan haussa, haussa
  • haussapeople
  • haussalanguage
Chinese Mandarin 豪薩語 /豪萨语
  • 豪薩語 /豪萨语 (Háosàyǔ)language
Czech hauština
  • hauštinalanguage
Esperanto haŭsoj, haŭsa lingvo
  • haŭsojpeople
  • haŭsa lingvolanguage
Finnish hausa, hausa
  • hausapeople
  • hausalanguage
French haoussa
  • haoussalanguage
German Hausa
  • Hausalanguage
Greek Χάουσα
  • Χάουσα (Cháousa)people
Irish Hásais
  • Hásaislanguage
Japanese ハウサ人, ハウサ語
  • ハウサ人 (Hausa-jin)people
  • ハウサ語 (Hausa-go)language
Polish Hausa, hausa
  • Hausapeople
  • hausalanguage
Portuguese hauçá, hauçá
  • hauçápeople
  • hauçálanguage
Russian ха́уса
  • ха́уса (xáusa)language
Slovak hauština
  • hauštinalanguage
Swahili Mhausa, Kihausa
  • Mhausapeople
  • Kihausalanguage
Swedish hausa, hausa
  • hausapeople
  • hausalanguage
Turkish Hausaca
  • Hausacalanguage
Ukrainian га́уса, ха́уса
  • га́уса (háusa)language
  • ха́уса (xáusa)language

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

Hausa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hausa

MLA

“Hausa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hausa. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hausa,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hausa.

Source: Hausa on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.