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butsatsa

==Noun== f / m

1. mutum mai tonon faɗa ko mai fushi ko mai wuyar faranta wa rai.
2. kalma mai nuna rashin kintsuwar abu kamar gashi.
   • Synonyms: butsu-butsu and butsutsu
   1. Ta ba kai butsatsa kamar mahaukaciya! <> She left her head a mess like a crazy person.
3. One it is impossible to please; an ill-tempered, quarrelsome, petulant, peevish person.
   • Synonym: buzuzu
4. Of him is said: [bu/tsa/tsa" ka/+ya+r ka+ba"; ko/+i"na/+ su/+ka", ga"ba+ tsi/"ni/+, ba/+ya+ tsi/"ni/+], one termed butsatsa will make one angry, upset one every time one has anything to do with him, he is like a load of dum palm leaves, both ends of which are pointed and may hurt one.
5. burcici

butsil

==Noun== m

1. ɗan butsil; watau wani sashe na kayan saƙa.

butsubutsu

1. kalma mai siffanta rashin tsaftar gashi. <> describes untidy hair.
   • Synonyms: butsu-butsu and butsatsa

buttami

1. [bu"tta+mi/+] {n.m.}. (Zamf.) A beehive. (= amya/amiya.)

butu

==Noun== m

1. araha <> cheap.

butu-butu

==Adverb==

1. kalma mai nuna yawan abu musamman shuka ko gashi. <> describes a bunch of things such as plants or hair.
   • Synonym: daɓaɓa
2. kalma mai siffanta yawan ƙura a jikin mutum ko a kan wani abu. <> dusty.
3. {adv.}. Emphasizes the germination of seed sown very thickly; plethora of any commodity; coarseness of thread; untidiness of woman's head; &c. e.g. hatsi ya tsiro butu-butu; goro yina nan a kasuwa butu-butu.

==Noun== m

1. The sound of bellows at a smelting furnace.
2. A motorcycle. (= babur.)

butuku

1. REDIRECT shuni

butulci

==Noun== m

1. ungratefulness. thankless. <> rashin godiya.
   1. mutum ya kasance mai yawan butulci. <> And ever is man ungrateful. --Qur'an 17:67

Related

• butulu (mutum marasa godiya, an ingrate)

buturi

==Noun== m

1. dawa marasa kyau. <> {n.m.}. Inferior quality bulrush-millet. (= bitiri; bici; bukku; kuturi; lumfu; cf. kaga.)

Related

• buturi huta (A variety of guinea-corn.

buturuku

==Noun== m

1. abu mai araha ko marasa kyau ko inganci. <> cheap, low quality item.

bututtuke

==Verb==

1. ɓata rai ko murtuke fuska. (to frown) <> 1. (a) Be in a bad temper or ill humour. (butsatsa, buzuzu) (b) = bu'du'dduke q.v.
   1. ya bututtuki fuska <> he made an angry face.

bututu

==Noun== m

1. The hollow stem of pumpkins, or of pawpaw leaves, uscd as 'trumpets' by children. <> reshen gwanda da yara ke amfani da shi don busawa wajen wasa.
2. A gourd funnel (= mazurari). <> wani abu kamar bokiti na k'arfe wanda aka huhhuda bakinsa, aka yi 'yan k'ofofi a bakin ta yadda ruwa zai dinga fitowa don ban ruwa.
3. A hose pipe. <> dogon abu na k'arfe ko roba da ake tura mai ko ruwa daga wani wuri zuwa wani.
4. abin da aka yi mai kama da zunguru.
5. Flowers of locust-bean tree. (=tuntu.)
6. The bird alhudahuda.
7. {n.m.}. Untidiness of a woman's head. e.g. kanta ta ya yi bututu. (= butsutsu. cf. burcici) kalma mai nuna rashin tsafta musamman na gashin kan mace.
   • Synonym: butsutsu
   1. kanta ya yi bututu. <> Her head's untidy.
8. {adv.}. butaci ya tashi bututu. <> the bits of grass bran have risen to, and are lying on, the surface of the fluid.

butuwa

==Noun== f

1. taba marasa kyau. <> bad tobacco/cigar. Poor quality tobacco. (= bunga.)
2. dudduga. <> Refuse grass from stable (used by builders). (= tattaka)

buya buya

1. REDIRECT buya-buya

buya-buya

1. kalma mai nuna tafiya cikin riga a hargitse.

buwa

==Noun== f

1. wata irin tsuntsuwa. <> {n.f.}. (S.) The bird jira.

buwaya

==Verb==

1. gaggara. <> Exceed power of. become overwhelmed (= gagara). Be impossible. (= faskara).
   1. Shiri ya buwaya tsakaninmu.

Related

• buwayayye (gagararre)

buwaye

==Noun== f

1. An invincible force. (e.g. champion, wrestler.)
2. (a) A person who has got quite out of hand.
3. (b) Work which is beyond one's power &c.

See also buwaya, and buwayi

buwayi

1. An epithet applied to one holding the office of shamaki. (= buwaye)
2. Expression used in...
   1. (a) as an epithet applied to God. <> Buwayi gagara; watau kirari da ke yi wa Allah.
   2. (b) generally as an exclamation of astonishment at seeing some monstrosity or other striking sight.

buya

Not to be confused with ɓuya. ==Noun== f

1. wani irin <> a type of metal.

buya-buya

1. kalma mai nuna cunkoson fitowar abu musamman gashi.
   1. Gashi ya fito masa buya-buya a haɓarsa.

buyayi

1. REDIRECT buyagi

buyagi

==Noun== m

1. ƙirare <> Quite small sticks or twigs, smaller than those called k'irare. kindling especially dried leaves.
2. mai marasa kunya. <> unabashed, unashamed.
   • Synonym: buyayi
3. {n.m.}. A quarrelsome person. (= ayagi.)
4. An expression of astonishment at seeing a person wearing a gown which is too long for him, letting it trail on the ground (cf. biki I) or at a very hirsute face with long beard. <> kalma mai nuna rashin tsarin abu kamar gashi ko ciyawa (untidy/unkempt hair or grass).

buyaya

1. Sandbox1 is another way of spelling bayaya.
2. In an untidy, disheveled state. e.g. ya kawo kara buyaya. <> kalma mai siffanta rashin kintsi ko tsafta.

buza

==Noun== f

1. wata irin giya <> booze, a type of beer.
2. {n.f.}. (Arabic.) A strong beer, sweetened with honey. (= boza. Vide giya.)

buzai

==Noun== m

1. rashin wanzuwar wani abu tartibi musamman a kan wata magana. <> an unfruitful conversation.
   • Synonym: banza
   1. Zancennan ya yi buzai. <> nothing has come of this matter.
2. wata irin ƙasa mai launin rawaya da ake adon ɗaki da ita. <> a yellow sand used as a room decoration. A yellow earth used in adorning interior of house. (= da'da kyau.)
3. kalma mai nuna yamutsewar gashi. <> tangled hair. {adv.}. Emphasizes being fluffed out like the tail of the ground squirrel (kurege). e.g. yina da gemu buzai. (= duzai.)
4. {n.m.; no pl.}. The pround squirrel. (= kurege.)

buzara

1. mutum mai zafin rai. <> high-tempered individual.

buzaye

==Noun==

Singular buzu

Plural buzaye

m

1. (Eng.) The bull's eye of a target. (= bujaye; buzai)
2. ta yi masa buzaye <> she infected him with syphilis;
3. kufan buzaye <> evidences of tertiary syphilis. (Vide kufai.)
4. The plural form of buzu; more than one (kind of) buzu.

buzu

==Noun==

Singular buzu

Plural buzaye

m

1. fatar rogo ko tunkiya wadda aka gyara ake zama ko sallah a kai. <> a goat's skin used as a mat.
   • Synonym: agalami
2. fatar dabba da aka gyara aka yi warki da it. <> An undressed skin mat, or loin-cloth. (Vide agalami.)
3. spades in playing cards, esp. the ace.

==Proper Noun [[Buzu]]==

Singular Buzu

Plural Buzaye or Bugaje

buzu = n.m.; f. = Buzuwa/Buzara 1. A serf of the Azben / Tuareg people. <> wasu mutane masu yawan yin naɗi da ake samu a ƙasar Niger ko Mali ko Morocco ko Mauritania.

• (N.B. The word buzu is not used in S. for the mat because of the propinquity of the Buzu people.)

buzu-buzu

==Adverb==

1. {adv.}. Emphasizes hairiness; hairy. <> kalma mai nuna yawan gashi.
   1. tana (yina) da gashi buzu-buzu.

buzuma

==Verb==

1. raguwa a guje. <> fast decreasing.
   • Synonyms: bazama and runtuma

buzurwa

==Noun==

Singular buzurwa

Plural buzurwoyi

f

1. Long-haired goat or sheep. <> akuya ko tunkiya mai dogon gashi.
2. Ɗan buzurwar akuya, ko bai yi gashi koina ba, ya yi a katattari/katara watau guda ga ɗan gada gado. = A child will inherit some of the ways of his father.
3. {adj. m. & fem.}. Long-haired. e.g. akwiyan nan buzurwa ce; akwiyan nan gashinta buzurwa ne. <> mutum ko dabba mai dogon gashi.
   • Synonym: gargasa
4. Tanned goatskin with the hair left on, worn as a loincloth usually by wrestlers.
5. Exclamation of astonishment at hirsuteness of man.

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buzuzu

==Noun==

Singular buzuzu

Plural buzuzai

1. dung beetle, stag beetle (= k'ururu; dangwala.). buzuzun dawaki: (Tas.). A horned stag-beetle.
2. buzuzun taba <> A large quid of chewed tobacco. (Vide k'amaila.)
3. Epithet appplied to bad-tempered, quarrelsome person.
   • Synonyms: butsatsa and buzuzu
4. A hairy caterpillar. (= gizaka.)
5. That portion of a native bit which presses on an animal's tongue.
6. The ornamented end of the hilt of a sword. An ornamental head of a pin.
7. {adv.}., Emphasizes hirsuteness, e.g. yina da gemu buzuzu. (Vide buzurwa)

c

Homophones

• see
• sea

==Noun==

Letter C or sandbox1

The letter C

1. C is the third letter of the alphabet. <> ɗaya daga cikin baƙaƙen Hausa da Turanci.

   "b" comes before "c" <> "b" na zuwa kafin "c"

2. (school) In some schools, an C is the passing grade. <> makin cigaba a wasu darussa a makaranta.

   Albert only just passed the exam; he got a C.

Letters of the Alphabet

A a - B b - C c - D d - E e - F f - G g - H h - I i - J j - K k - L l - M m N n - O o - P p - Q q - R r - S s - T t - U u - V v - W w - X x - Y y - Z z

ca

1. cafɗi!

==Verb==

1. zaci <> to have a thought.
   1. ca nake yana da gida; watau ina zaton yana da gida. <> I thought he had a home.