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== Verb ==
== Verb ==
# [[cinkisa]]. <> [[stuff]], force something into a tight space.
# [[cinkisa]]. <> [[stuff]], force something into a tight space. Stuff something into something.
# [[tura]] musamman ra'ayi. <> [[nag]], [[urge]].
# [[tura]] musamman ra'ayi. <> [[nag]], [[urge]]. Coerce someone.


==Noun==
==Noun==
<abbr title="feminine gender">''f''</abbr>[[Category:Feminine gender Hausa nouns]]
<abbr title="feminine gender">''f''</abbr>
# ɗura wa doki dunƙulalliyar dusa. {{syn|cushe}}
[[Category:Feminine gender Hausa nouns]]
# ɗura wa [[doki]] dunƙulalliyar dusa. <> The cake (made of baobab, bran, and potash) that one force-feeds a [[horse]]. {{syn|cushe}}
 
==Bargery's definition of cusa==
'''I.''' [cu/sa"] {v.tr.2c}.
 
1. ''Stuff thing or things into anything.'' e.g na/ c. tsumma a rami, ''I stuffed rags into the hole.'' ya/ cusa kai a rami, ''it put its head into the hole.'' ya/ cusa kai ya shiga, ''he entered uninvited.''
 
2. {plus dative}. ''Force upon p. that which he does not want but cannot refuse.'' e.g. an cusa masa wannan riga.
 
'''II.''' [cu/+sa"] {4d of cusa I}.
 
'''III.''' [cu/"sa/+] {n.f.}. ''Forcible feeding of a horse.'' (= (S.) cushe; (N.) cikka.)