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Salla

Hausa · Hausa / Northern Nigeria; Niger; zongo communities in Ghana · Festival

Ritual prayer, and by extension a Muslim festival. Robinson records salla (from Arabic salat) as '1. prayer; 2. divine worship and so, a service, feast', e.g. babbar salla, 'the great Mohammedan feast', and sallar laya, the Feast of Sacrifice. yin salla means 'to pray'.

The whole town gathered at the prayer ground for Salla.

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