tautau

Borrowed from Kanuri tàutáu (“spider”).

• IPA^(key): /táu.tàu/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [táu.tàu]

tautàu m (possessed form tautàn)

1. a kind of long-legged spider
2. A skin rash thought to be caused by drinking water in which a spider has died.

• Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• IPA^(key): [ˌta.u.ˈta.u]

tautau

1. (stative) to be steady, fixed

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /tá.ú.tá.ú/

táútáú

1. (of earth, climate etc.) bone-dry; arid; parched

   Antonym: gbingbin

   Ó ti gbẹ táútáú. ― It has completely dried.