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Fulah

American  
[foo-lah] / ˈfu lɑ /

noun

plural

Fulahs,

plural

Fulah
  1. Fulani.


Example Sentences

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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

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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