daƙiƙa

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See also: dakika

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic دَقِيقَة (daqīqa, “minute”), as a result of a coinage in the 1970s by the Hausa Language Board.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dà.kʼíː.kʼàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):

Noun

dàƙīƙā̀ f (plural dāƙīƙōƙī, possessed form dàƙīƙàr̃)

  1. second (unit of time)

References

  • Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41.
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