Hausa
sɑ, -sə, -zə noun, plural Hau·sas ( especially collectively ) Hau·sa for 1.
1.
a member of an indigenous people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger whose culture has been strongly influenced by Islam.
Also, Haus·sa.
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| —n , -sas, -sa | |
| 1. | a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in N Nigeria |
| 2. | the language of this people: the chief member of the Chadic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is widely used as a trading language throughout W Africa and the S Sahara |
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Hausa
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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