basasa

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): [báː.sáː.sàː]

Noun

bāsāsā̀ f (possessed form bāsāsàr̃)

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