English noun: Hausa | |||
1. | Hausa (person) a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria | ||
Synonyms | Haussa | ||
Broader (hypernym) | Nigerian | ||
2. | Hausa (communication) the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language | ||
Synonyms | Haussa | ||
Broader (hypernym) | West Chadic | ||