1. a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria; [syn: Hausa, Haussa]
2. the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language; [syn: Hausa, Haussa]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hausa
n 1: a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern
Nigeria [syn: Hausa, Haussa]
2: the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic
languages; widely used as a trading language [syn: Hausa,
Haussa]