Associations to the word «Hausa»

Wiktionary

HAUSA, noun. A Moslem people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.
HAUSA, noun. The Chadic language spoken by these people.
HAUSA SIGN LANGUAGE, proper noun. A sign language used in Nigeria.

Dictionary definition

HAUSA, noun. A member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria.
HAUSA, noun. The chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats