Fulah

American  

[foo-lah] / ˈfu lɑ /

noun

Fulahs plural

1. Fulani.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• Fulahs
  plural
• Fulah
  plural

Example Sentences

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 Haddon, Alfred Court

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

From Wyndham's Pal by Bindloss, Harold

Notwithstanding the great Fulah conquests—for under a leader named Danfodio this has been one of the encroaching and subjugating families of Africa—there are still American slaves of Fulah blood—though, perhaps, but few.

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

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 Haddon, Alfred Court