Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hausa

2 senses of hausa

Sense 1
Hausa, Haussa -- (a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria)
       => Nigerian -- (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)

Sense 2
Hausa, Haussa -- (the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language)
       => West Chadic -- (a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member)