Fula (redirected from Foulah)

Fu·la·ni  (flän, f-lä-) also Fu·la (fl)

n. pl. Fulani or Fu·la·nis also Fula or Fu·las

1. A member of a pastoral, largely Muslim people inhabiting parts of West Africa from northern Nigeria to Mali and the Atlantic coast.

2. The West Atlantic language of this people.

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Fula [ˈfuːlə], Fulah [ˈfuːlɑː]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -la, -las, -lah -lahs a member of a pastoral nomadic people of W and central Africa, living chiefly in the sub-Sahara region from Senegal to N Cameroon: a racial mixture of light-skinned Berber peoples of the North and darker-skinned W Africans

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people; Fulani

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Fula - a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith Fellata, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe African - a native or inhabitant of Africa
	2.	Fula - a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages Ful, Peul, Fulani West African - a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa