A Hausa word with several homonyms recorded by Robinson: (1) white, bright (fem. fara, pl. farare); (2) drought; (3) a dry break of about ten days during the rainy season; (4) in compounds, 'first'. Perani & Wolff note rigar fari, the white gown, which when dyed becomes rigar kore.
The white gown is called rigar fari.