Fulah

American  

[foo-lah] / ˈfu lɑ /

noun

• Fulahs,
  plural
• Fulah
  plural

1. Fulani.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Fulah
  plural
• Fulahs
  plural

Example Sentences

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Fulah Fulahs

No doubt early in the nineteenth century the historical Hausa States, occupying the whole region between the Niger and Bornu, were overrun and reduced by the fanatical Fulah bands under Othmán Dan Fodye.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

K. Three from the widely-spread nations of the interior—the Fulah, the Haussa, and the Bornu.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Besides, there were bits of pottery, brass, and silver work, the Fulah brought across the desert.

From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

Here agglutination, both with prefixed and postfixed particles, is the prevailing morphological order, as in the Mandingan, Fulah, Nubian, Dinkan, and Mangbattu groups.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Mr. W. Winwood Reade suspects them to be an offshoot of the great Fulah race, and there is nothing in point of dialect to disprove what we must at present consider a pure conjecture.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Fulahs of Fouta-Torro and Fouta-Jallo possess the higher part of the Senegambian system.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

In the vicinity of the river Senegal the line of separation may be said to divide the Iolofs, a Negro nation, from the Fulahs and Phellatahs, whose physical characteristics are of an intermediate nature.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Arthur James Johnes

Serawolli.—On the Middle Senegal, different, in many respects, from the Sereres, the Wolofs, and the Fulahs; nations with which they are in geographical contact.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Malays have also been mentioned, and some ethnologists have even brought the Fulahs of Western Sudan all the way from Malaysia.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

The Yangere section were still on the move some twelve years ago, but the general migration has since been arrested by the Fulahs of Adamawa.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon