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advice | noun | dabara, dabara, shawora |
advisable | adjective | see advantageous |
advise | verb | yin dabara |
advocate | noun | (fig. = helper, defender) maitainmako; cf. f 79 |
afar | adverb | nesa, dag(g)a nesa |
affair | noun | abu, abin, pl. abubua |
afflict | transitive verb | yin wohol(l)a |
afflicted | adjective | (= one who endures affliction and toil) maiwohol(l)a, pl. masuwohol(l)a |
affliction | noun | wohol(l)a, maƙiba |
afoot | adverb | akafà, da kafà |
afraid | adjective | i am a. na yi tinzera, he made him a. ya bashi tsoro; to be a. jin tsoro |
afresh | adverb | see again |
afternoon | noun | laasar, laaṣar; see under rana |
afterwards | adverb | (= after this) bayan wanan, bayan hak(k)a |
again | adverb | kuma, hario, na sabo, dada, dai; the v. kara (add) |
against | preposition | gab(b)a ga, ga, gan; to stumble a. tuntube da; a. his will (= perforce) da tilas |
age | noun | (= period or time) yayi |
age | noun | (= time that a person has lived) shekara or pl. shekarù |
aged | adjective | (= of a certain age), see prec. 2 |
aged | adjective | (= advanced in years) tsof, fem. tsofuwa, pl. tsofi or tsofofi; he is a. yayinsa ya wuche, lit. his time is past |
agent | noun | nouns denoting the a. may be formed from verbs, substantives or adjectives by prefixing mai or ma |
agitate | transitive verb | see shake |
ago | adverb | tun, tunda |
agree | verb | γama, gamu, yerda, yin baki daia, tangas, saddu, jit(o), jet(o), damre magana; agreed to yerdade |
agreeable | adjective | (= pleasant) da dadi, dadi, daidai |
agreeable | adjective | (= willing) |
ague | noun | see fever |
ahead | adverb | gab(b)a |
aid | transitive verb | taya, yin taimako, tainya, tainyo, koro sauki |
aid | noun | taimako, taimakawa, sauki; (= a helper) maitainako |
ail | verb | e.g. what ails you? mi ya sameka |
ailment | noun | see sickness |
ainhum | noun | i.e. a disease of the little toe, hambudiga, mage-duwa; cf. also kudumbia a disease which may affect all the toes |
air | noun | iska, hiska; shan iska is the hausa idiom for to take a walk |
air | verb | see to dry |
albino | noun | zabia, pl. zabiyoyi |
alien | noun | bare; see also stranger |
alight | intransitive verb | sabka, sauka, sauka, soka, sabki, sapki, shid(d)a, shad(e) |
alike | adjective | daidai, suasua; they are all a. duka daia ne, supasu daia |
alive | adjective | da rai; to keep a. raia, raya |
alkoran | noun | kuran, f 26 |
all | adjective | duka, duk, dukachi, jemaa, kull(l); a. together taasahi, tarasahi, tarasahi, tarare, fem. tarara, pl. tararu; a. of you dukanku, tarinku; a. men mutane duka or dukan mutane |
allay | transitive verb | futasda, kwantasda |
allegory | noun | michali, mithali, misali |
alliance | noun | gaya |
alligator | noun | kada or kado, pl. kadodi |
allow | transitive verb | ber(r)i, ber, yerda |
alloy | noun | hainchi; unalloyed babu hainchi, safi |
allure | transitive verb | rude |
almighty | adjective | maiiko da kowa, maiiyawa |
almond | noun | chanza, lanza |
almost | adverb | kus(a)a; it is a. finished ya yi kusaa kare or ya kusaa kare |
alms | noun | zak(k)a, kurdin gurasu; almsgiving, n. sadaka, to give a. v. sadaka |
alone | adverb | kad(d)ai, kawoi, abin followed by a personal pronoun, thus; he a. abinshi, i a. ni daiana or ni kad(d)ai; leave him a. bershi daiansa; they a. daiansu; a state of being a. kad(d)aichi |
alphabet | noun | arufi; letter of the a. harufi or hurufi, pl. harufai |
already | adverb | nada, dazu, wuri, tunda wuri |
also | adverb | kua, usually placed after that which it connects |
altar | noun | i.e. heathen a. daka-li |
alter | transitive verb | intr. sauya |
altered | participle | adj. sauyaye, fem. sauyaya, pl. sauyayi |
although | adverb | ko, koda |
always | adverb | koyaushe, kulyaushe, tutur, tutul, kull(um), dakull(um), yini, chik(k)in kowane yayi |
am | verb | see be |
ambuscade | noun | see seq |
ambush | noun | kwanto, fak(k)o; hak(k)o; to set an a. yin fak(k)o, place of or for an a. mafak(k)a |
amidst | preposition | tsak(k)a, tsak(k)an, tsak(k)anin |
amount, large | noun | chushe |
amuse | transitive verb | bada or sa murna |
ancestor | noun | kaka; ancestors usalî, awali |
and | conjunction | da, wa |
angel | noun | malika, maliki, pl. malaiku |
anger | noun | fushi, haushi, kankanchi, takaichi, hasâla, zafin zuchia |
angry | adjective | da fushi; one who is a. maifushi |
angry, to be | verb | yin fushi, fusata, yin tsewa; to be a. with chichik(k)a, yin chichik(k)a, jin takaichi; he feels a. yana jin haushi |
anguish | noun | azaba, zogi, zafin zogi |
animal | noun | bis(s)a, pl. bis(s)ashe or bis(s)aje; domestic animals bis(s)ashen gida, wild animals bis(s)ashen daji, abin daji or naman daji |
animosity | noun | see hate |
ankle | noun | dundunia, idon kafa, idon sau, pl. ijan sau; a. bone dombubu, dongudu, a. joint dongudu |
announce | transitive verb | gaya, fadl(a)i, labari, laberta; to a. as a herald does the coming of some one gabato, gabatowa |
annoy | transitive verb | dame, dama, haiyyet(a), wohalda, wohalshe, sa wohal(l)a, alale |
annoyance | noun | alale, wohal(l)a |
anoint, e.g. with oil or water | transitive verb | shafa, shafe |
anon | adverb | sai anjima, jima kad(d)an |
another | pronoun | woni, fem. wota, pl. wosu and wodansu; often rendered with kuma |
answer | noun | amsa, jawabî |
answer | verb | amsa, yin amsa, to give an a. karafafa |
ant | noun | choka; different species are zag(g)o; small a. sar(y)i; small stinging a. tirmani; small black a. chinaka or chirnaka or tuma da gaia; large black travelling a. kwalkwas(s)a, kwarikwas(s)a or kwarukwas(s)a; black stinging a. tururua; very small black a. kur- |
ant-hill | noun | suri, pl. sura; the ants called zag(g)o and gara construct the ant-hills sura |
antelope | noun | barewa, pl. bareyi; young a. dan barewa; diff. species are: large a. gonki, mariri, kanki or kenki; small red a. gada, pl. gadu; a. leucoryx walawaji; male of a large species kisshini |
anticipate | verb | tsaitse |
antimony | noun | kolli, kwolli, kwalli, tozali; small skin bottle for holding a. tandun tozali, gid(d)an kolli |
anvil | noun | makera |
anxiety | noun | machiata, matamanche |
apart from | adverb | bamda, dabam dabam |
apartment | noun | (= room) daki, pl. dakuna |
apparatus | noun | kaya or kaia, pl. kayayeki |
appear | intransitive verb | bayen(n)a, god-(d)u |
appearance | noun | kama, pl. kamanu |
appease | transitive verb | lalashi, lilashi, yin dadi |
appetite | noun | kodai, kwadaki |
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