单词 | hausa |
释义 | Hausan. A people of the Sudan and northern Nigeria; (also) the language of this people, used, esp. in commerce, over much of West Africa. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Chadic Hausa1820 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [noun] Kababish1790 Nuba1790 Shilluk1790 Fulani1839 Nuer1861 Hausa1879 Uduk1927 1820 J. G. Jackson (title) Account of Timbuctoo and Housa. 1853 E. Norris (title) Dialogues and a small portion of the New Testament, in the English, Arabic, Haussa, and Bornu languages. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 59/1 An armed police force, recruited..from the Mahometan tribe of the Houssas. 1923 F. W. Taylor Pract. Hausa Gram. i. 9 Hausa occupies a position midway between the tone languages, such as Yoruba, and the stress languages, such as English. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 666/1 The troops were Hausas—I don't think we had begun to call them ‘Waffs’ then. 1957 M. Banton West Afr. City viii. 158 Some blind Hausa beggars come from Nigeria to Freetown to sing in the streets. 1959 R. C. Abraham Lang. Hausa People i. 3 In Hausa..each word has its fixed tone, no matter what the emotional context. 1962 Listener 22 Feb. 335/1 A Hausaman, clad in a scarlet tarbush and flowing white robes. 1967 Listener 24 Aug. 230/1 There have been several uprisings already among Hausas and Yorubas trying to take revenge on Ibos. 1971 E. Afr. Jrnl. Mar. 8/1 I haven't worked and slaved..to have you give me a Hausa grandson. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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