Duala

[ doo-ah-lah ]

/ duˈɑ lɑ /

noun

Douala.

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Examples from the Web for duala

Duala is the headquarters of the merchants and missionaries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1|Various
This is quite a pretty little place (Duala) with some jolly houses, typical German of the Schloss villa type; nice inside and out.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915|Various
Two days after we had stored away the mahogany we anchored off Duala, the capital of the German Cameroons.
The Congo and Coasts of Africa|Richard Harding Davis
Mujuka, a station about fifty miles from Duala, was occupied by the British a few weeks later.
The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII)|Various

We find him, however, playing a tolerably conspicuous part in the folk-lore of the Duala.
Jamaican Song and Story|Walter Jekyll

British Dictionary definitions for duala

Duala

/ (dʊˈɑːlə, -lɑː) /

noun

plural -la or -las a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Cameroon

the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

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