Associations to the word «Haussa»

Dictionary definition

HAUSSA, noun. A member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria.
HAUSSA, 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