almajiri

From Hausa àlmājìr̃ī.

almajiri (countable and uncountable, plural almajiris)

1. An itinerant student at an Islamic school in northern Nigeria.
2. (uncountable) The system of Islamic education employed at these schools.

From Arabic اَلْمُهَاجِر (al-muhājir, “the emigrant, the one who leaves home”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔàl.máː.(d)ʒì.ríː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔàl.máː.d͡ʒɪ̀.ríː]

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àlmājìr̃ī m (feminine àlmājìr̃ā, plural àlmā̀jìr̃ai, possessed form àlmājìr̃in)

1. student (especially an itinerant student at an Islamic school)
2. beggar

• almājir̃ancī̀

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 6.