0monnakoda: Is Shehu an Arabic name?

Shehu is hausa version of the word sheik

Mr. Aladin:
Please i have a question for my hausa friends on Nairaland, does an hausa man has a native name apart from muslim names? For instance if u want to know if a particular muslim is a yoruba man is through his name like dis: tajudeen abiola, usman tunde, muhammed ajibola.

danjuma, danliti, larai, jummai, lami, balarabe, balaraba, talle, tanko, goshi, kande, kandala, magaji, magajiya, ladi, ado, danasabe, asabe, etc

Dan buga
Danbaba
Dan auta
Dan tani
Dangote
Dan tala
Dajumma
Danda
Da
Dan.... Dan means son of or related to sm.

Maikasuwa
Maishanu
Maiturare
Mai....
Babangida
Etc

HAH:

Shehu is hausa version of the word sheik

is Sheik an Arabic name?or a Muslim name?

Most of their names dont have meaning unlike names from other tribes.

0monnakoda: is Sheik an Arabic name?or a Muslim name?

Sheik is an arabic word meaning high scholar

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author=0monnakoda]Is Shehu an Arabic name?[/quote]

Yes, in a sense cox it's Sheik in arabic meaning a teacher or scholar in hausaland
it derive its origin from Sheik Usman Danfodio, all those named Usman
are also called Shehu or Malami(mostly in kebbi, zamfara, sokoto axis.

Zaki (Lion), Giwa (Elephant), etc.

There are also names like
Maikudi
Wakala
Talle
Mudi
Gambo e.t.c
Tanko

0monnakoda: Is Shehu an Arabic name?

Yes, from the word sheik: meaning a learned person or old.

abatajjvii: Musa
Ado
Gambo
Zuara
Jamila
Danjuma
Hamma
Bashir
Sani
Alaksan
Hamisu
Sale
Yusuf

Those names @ bold are arabic, Musa is arabic word for Moses while Yusuf is Joseph

0monnakoda: Badamasi

You Mean Badamosi /Gbadamosi

Nonybb: Am very SURE we IGBOS have only 0.000001% of muslims in our midst and it will remain so till christ comes, Insha jesus. So the question is not applicable to US

u can c dat u have comprehension problem ba. After now, u will be blamin WAEC for failin english.
Many hausa and fulani muslims have native name, some bear d name of their village of town sha. Dis are example of some of d native names, Lado, Yau, Sambo, Namadi, Dantata, kwankwaso, baballe, babangida, babayaro, baba alele, danjuma, danliti, jummai, laraba, asabe, and many more. Many ppl frm d south tend to misconstrued dem as Islamic name which dey are nt. And fyi, its nt only hausa and fulani dat are muslims in d north, there are over 200 tribe in d north which has both muslims and xtains.

Salam

wengerjay: Most of their names dont have meaning unlike names from other tribes.

or u dnt knw the meaning of most of those names. pls ask around for meaning of any hausa name nd u wil get it

Nonybb: Am very SURE we IGBOS have only 0.000001% of muslims in our midst and it will remain so till christ comes, Insha jesus. So the question is not applicable to US

The OP asked a question, you are neither northerner nor muslim so. I don't see the correlation between your comment and the question asked.

Anyhow I wish you peace

abdulkayus:


u can c dat u have comprehension problem ba. After now, u will be blamin WAEC for failin english.
Many hausa and fulani muslims have native name, some bear d name of their village of town sha. Dis are example of some of d native names, Lado, Yau, Sambo, Namadi, Dantata, kwankwaso, baballe, babangida, babayaro, baba alele, danjuma, danliti, jummai, laraba, asabe, and many more. Many ppl frm d south tend to misconstrued dem as Islamic name which dey are nt. And fyi, its nt only hausa and fulani dat are muslims in d north, there are over 200 tribe in d north which has both muslims and xtains.

Salam

kwankwaso is not a hausa name for a person

amankwo
ogui eke
oma eke
uwani
ogui agu
ogbooma

Some derive their native names from muslim names,like Bakari,Abu,Buba Baba ,Uba,Garba are all derived from the name Abubakar. However, There are very pretty traditional names such as Gambo(idowu in Yorubaland), Gimba, Gimbiya, Kwakutu (fat one) Kaka,Sarki(king ,Oba) and a host of beautiful ones. Not all Northerners are necessarily Muslims or Hausas. Main Hausas live in six states out of the 19 Northern states Namely, Kebbi,Kano, Kaduna,Jigawa,Katsina,and Zamfara.A sprinkling of settlers can also be found in Kaduna State. The other 13 states are noy Hausa States as they have their own dialects,ethnic groupings and cultures.

They sold their souls to the arabs.

ovo4u: they all have muhammed as nick name

Or Aboki

whats d meaning of the Hausa name BANYE? I'm in love with a girl bearing that name.

abdulkayus:


u can c dat u have comprehension problem ba. After now, u will be blamin WAEC for failin english.
Many hausa and fulani muslims have native name, some bear d name of their village of town sha. Dis are example of some of d native names, Lado, Yau, Sambo, Namadi, Dantata, kwankwaso, baballe, babangida, babayaro, baba alele, danjuma, danliti, jummai, laraba, asabe, and many more. Many ppl frm d south tend to misconstrued dem as Islamic name which dey are nt. And fyi, its nt only hausa and fulani dat are muslims in d north, there are over 200 tribe in d north which has both muslims and xtains.

Salam

My points are clear and specific. Any confusion u guys have with names shouldnt be to the classification of the entire Northern region. I knw some ppl/igbos that fled to Northern part of this country few years after Nigerian-Biafran war, so they remained but there religion undeniably were christianity and this question is not to them. I have never seen with my eyes any Igbo full blooded indigene that could proudly profess islam as his religion if not for in disguise of his poor conditions to obtain favour frm a big alhaji. We are igbo and we are for jesus, it is not negotiable and any suggestion otherwise is vehemently resisted. I am not a fanatics but i strongly believe igbos naturally, or by providence are not meant to practice islam. The missionaries would collected when they came. It was a sign of peace and we yielded. We werent caught up in jihad or threat to join.

Of course. Amechi, tinubu, rochas.

Yea.. They hav e.g dan asabe, ladidi, iliya, talatu, idi,babayaro,babagida..but d truth is just dat d hausa man dont lyk bearing native names including some Yoruba's staying in the north...one yoruba izalah man once told me it's a sin to bear a name dat is not islamic

abatajjvii:
Sale

lol at Salè, i remember these from childhood
Hadi
Sidi
Tanko
Gambo
Mamman
Dangana
Mairo
Rabi (not sure if its arabic)
Samira (nt sure too)

Nonybb: My points are clear and specific. Any confusion u guys have with names shouldnt be to the classification of the entire Northern region. I knw some ppl/igbos that fled to Northern part of this country few years after Nigerian-Biafran war, so they remained but there religion undeniably were christianity and this question is not to them. I have never seen with my eyes any Igbo full blooded indigene that could proudly profess islam as his religion if not for in disguise of his poor conditions to obtain favour frm a big alhaji. We are igbo and we are for jesus, it is not negotiable and any suggestion otherwise is vehemently resisted. I am not a fanatics but i strongly believe igbos naturally, or by providence are not meant to practice islam. The missionaries would collected when they came. It was a sign of peace and we yielded. We werent caught up in jihad or threat to join.

Don't be ignorant go read this thread

The Challenges Of Igbo Muslims
www.nairaland.com/997009/challenges-igbo-muslims

idiagbon: whats d meaning of the Hausa name BANYE? I'm in love with a girl bearing that name.

Ask her now, or she no hear English..besides..dont love any hausa girl anyhow ooo...make sure she is enlightened or your enlighten her if not..your arms and legs at risk..!

i have observed all the replies given but sincerely speaking, they are more confusing than enlightening because i hv realised that they were given by non-Hausas.yes Hausas have native names just like the Yorubas and these names are usually divided according to date of birth,time of birth,circumstance of birth,place of birth and lineage.i will restrict myself to names of males.i will expantiate more:
A. date of birth
Danjummai=born on friday
Dan'Asibi= born on saturday
danladi=sunday
danliti=monday
dantala=tuesday
bala or balarabe=wednesday
danlami=thursday
B.time of birth
Damina=born during rainy season
Hantsi=born in the morning
Alhaji=born on Sallah day
C.circumstance of birth
gambo=born after twins(remember former IG Gambo Jimeta)
Tanko=born after 3 females (remember Tanko Yakasai,the veteran Kano politician?)
Lado=following many females
D.place of birth
as for place of birth it usually comes as a last name of a person eg Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,Shehu Shagari,Attahiru Bafarawa,for your information Shekau is not a Hausa man(he is Kanuri and kanuris and Hausas:no love lost).
E.family lineage
some Hausas adopt their family name as their signatures especially the aristocracy.
eg Saminu Turaki (turaki is a family title),etc
hope u are now in the clear.by the way, i am a Hausa-Fulani-Nigerian-Nairalander!