basasa

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Hausa

Etymology

Originally the name given to the civil war fought in the 1890s in Kano, likely from Arabic بَسُوس (basūs), in reference to the Basus War.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /báː.sáː.sàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):

Noun

bāsāsā̀ f (possessed form bāsāsàr̃)

  1. a civil war; (more generally) any destructive war