Definition of "Hausa"

Hausa

/ˈhaʊsə/

noun
plural only
1. A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.
proper noun
1. The Chadic language spoken by these people.
  Quotations
  She tells me she’s been intensively studying Hausa these past weeks, that it’s such a unique and precise language, one that you write the way you speak it, very historical and more Arabian than she’d thought.
  2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 191