Fula

American  

[foo-luh, fool-uh] / ˈfu lə, ˈfʊl ə /

noun

plural

Fulas,

plural

Fula

1. Fulani.

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Fula British  

/ ˈfuːlɑː, ˈfuːlə /

noun

1. 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. the language of this people; Fulani

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Example Sentences

The Kankurang tradition has since spread to other groups in the region — including Wolof, Fula and others — but it is at risk of disappearing because of land development, he said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2021

They built their villages on high ground, with cliffs for lookouts and caves to hide in, and for centuries battled the Fula, or Peuls, who make up about 25 percent of Senegal’s population.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2021

Five strangers with nothing in common find themselves working together to save the people and Pokemon of Fula City.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2019

The images, blown up larger than their original print sizes, show Fula, Malian and Voltaic teenagers and twentysomethings posing and wielding props in a studio decorated with backdrops painted by artists from Ghana.

From New York Times • May 31, 2018

Such are the Mandingo, the Songhai, the Fula, Hausa, Kanuri, Bagirmi, Kanembu, and the peoples of Wadai and Darfur; the few aborigines who persist, on the southern fringe of the Chad basin, are imperfectly known.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg