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Peul

American  
[pool, pœl] / pul, pœl /

noun

French

plural

Peuls,

plural

Peul
  1. Fulani.


Example Sentences

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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

He is a member of the Peul, or Fulani, community.

From BBC

Both buildings and cultural objects have been lost resulting in the "deterioration of cultural practices and traditions of the Dogon, Peuls, Bozo, Bambara and Sonrhai groups", Unesco said in a statement.

From BBC

According to HRW, an ethnic dynamic underscores the violence in the north where jihadist groups largely recruit from the nomadic Peul or Fulani communities.

From BBC

He added that the Peul ethnic population in the Sahel, who are suspected by other ethnic groups of collaborating with militants, should not be stigmatised.

From Reuters