Hausa Dictionary for Everyday Use

Roxana Ma, Paul Newman

Description

Hausa Dictionary for Everyday Use is intended to afford greater access to the language by millions of Hausa speakers and scholars in Nigeria and beyond. Composed in Standard Hausa which is largely spoken in Kano, Nigeria the authors have made great attempts to capture new terms and expressions not covered by previous publications.

Kamusun Hausa na Yau da Kullum, kundin littafi ne da ya ke dauke da kalmomi na Hausa da ma'anoninsu. An yi amfani da ingantacciyar Hausa wadda Hausar Kano ta mamaye. Littafin nan ya kunshi tsofaffi da sababbin kalmomi, wanda ya bambanta shi da sauran Qamusan da suka gabace shi. An yi wannan littafi ne domin manyan malamai na jami'o'i da dalibai masu bincike da masu magana da Harshen Hausa da masu koyon Hausa a Najeriya da wajenta.

Foreword

Gabatarwa

Acknowledgements

Godiya

User's Guide to the Dictionary

Jagoran Amfani da Ƙamusun

Abbreviations & Symbols

Hausa-English Dictionary | Ƙamusun Hausa-Ingilishi

English-Hausa Dictionary | Ƙamusun Ingilishi-Hausa

Appendix A: Pronoun Paradigms

Appendix B: Place Names

Sujets

• Hausa language
• Language
• Languages of Africa
• Languages of Nigeria
• Lettres et linguistique
• Dictionaries
• Foreign Language study
• Multi-Language Dictionaries
• African Languages

Informations

• Publié par: Bayero University Press
• Date de parution: 22 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9789785967746
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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Hausa—Ingilishi | Ingilishi—Hausa

Published 2020 by
Bayero University Press,
P.M.B. 3011,
Bayero University Kano,
Nigeria

Website: www.bayerouniversity.edu.ng
E-mail: [e-mail]

eBook with minor corrections and emendations
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Copyright © 2020 Paul Newman and Roxana Ma Newman

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means
without prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN:

978-978-98446-6-1 (Cased)
978-978-98446-5-4 (Limp)
978-978-59677-4-7 (eBook, PDF)

Contents /Abubuwan da ke Ciki

Foreword
Gabatarwa
Acknowledgements
Godiya
User’s Guide to the Dictionary
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Abbreviations & Symbols

Hausa–English Dictionary |ףĂŵƵƐƵŶ ,ĂƵƐĂʹ/ŶŐŝůŝƐŚŝ

English–Hausa Dictionary |ףĂŵƵƐƵŶ /ŶŐŝůŝƐŚŝʹ,ĂƵƐĂ

Appendix A: Pronoun Paradigms

Appendix B: Place Names

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This dictionary (Hausa-English and English-Hausa) by Professor Paul Newman
and Dr. Roxana Ma Newman is, without a doubt, a monumental piece of work.
It can arguably be presented today as the best bilingual dictionary on Hausa,
and the most comprehensive since Abraham’s and Bargery’s dictionaries. For
the record, the bilingual dictionary was initially published by Yale University
Press, USA, in two parts: an English–Hausa Dictionary by Roxana Ma Newman
in 1990, and a Hausa–English Dictionary by Paul Newman in 2007. Later, after
a number of considerations, and essentially in order to enable greater access to
the two dictionaries by the millions of Hausa speakers and scholars in Nigeria
and Africa in general, Newman and Newman came up with the idea of
publishing Nigerian editions of the two dictionaries, but as a single volume. Bayero
University Press gladly accepted Newman and Newman’s request to publish the
Nigerian edition.
Bayero University Press in carrying out its assignment was immediately
confronted by some challenges. It observed that given the passage of time, and the
fact that language is ever dynamic, Hausa and English not being exceptions,
there are now terms and expressions that needed to be included in the Dictionary
to make it competitively current. For example, some previously existing Hausa
and English words have recently acquired additional meanings through
semantic extension, while new words and expressions have been created through the
various word formation devices available to Hausa and English speakers. In
order to address these challenges, Bayero University Press assembled a team
of experts, all of them native speakers of Hausa and professors of language and
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and additional meanings of existing words have been aptly captured.
What you have in your hands right now is, therefore, a product of Paul
Newman and Roxana Newman’s 30-year endeavour in lexicography and the
meticulous review of a team of experts, whose combined academic and intellectual
experience spans more than 150 years. Going through the pages of the Dictionary,

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one is presented with striking evidence that for each word entry, the various
meanings – primary, secondary and connotative – and nuances have been aptly
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I personally feel honoured to present to you readers this great piece of work.
I also take pride in being part of the teams that worked on all editions of the
Dictionary – the earlier Yale University Press editions and the current Nigerian
edition.

Prof. Mustapha Ahmad Isa
Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Bayero University, Kano
Former Vice-Chancellor, Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano

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Farfesa Mustapha Ahmad Isa
Farfesa a Ingilishi da Kimiyyar Harshe, Jami’ar Bayero Kano, Nijeriya
Tsohon Shugaban Jami’ar Yusuf Maitama Sule, Kano, Nijeriya

Acknowledgments

Our introduction to Hausa lexicography began in the 1970s when we had the
good fortune to be welcomed in Nigeria at the Centre for the Study of Nigerian
Languages at Abdullahi Bayero College (now Bayero University Kano). A
major project of the Centre at the time was the preparation of the conciseModern
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Press Ltd, 1977). The Kano years were a professional watershed for us. We went
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Although this work is based on our two earlier dictionaries, published by Yale
University Press, U.S.A. (Roxana Ma Newman,An English–Hausa Dictionary
(1990) and Paul Newman,A Hausa–English Dictionaryit has been (2007)),
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Hausa volume. In order to ensure that this new Nigerian edition was accurate
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8QLversity Press assembled a panel of expert linguists, all native Hausa speakers,
to carefully vet a draft of the entire dictionary to eliminate errors and make
suggestions for improvements. The panel included Professor Habu Mohammed,
Mr. Adekunle Adebanji (Secretary of the Panel), and Malam Abdulkadir
Badsha Mukhtar representing the BUK Press itself, as well as Professor Mustapha
Ahmad Isa (former Vice-Chancellor, Yusuf Maitama Sule University),
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BUK), Professor Isa Mukhtar (Dept. of Nigerian Languages, BUK), and Dr.
Ibrahim Garba Satatima (Head, Dept. of Nigerian Languages, BUK). We are
grateful to have had such a stellar panel and to be able to incorporate almost all
of their comments, respecting our role as guardians of Hausa’s rich
lexicographic tradition.
Among members of the panel, two scholars deserve special recognition.
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and advice on matters of Hausa lexicography, he contributed to the dictionary

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by undertaking the arduous task of translating the User’s Guide into Hausa