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Fulani

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Noun

1. fellata, fula, fulah, fulani, fulbe

a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith

2. ful, fula, fulani, peul

a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fulani

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noun
1. 
the language of the Fula, belonging to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family, widely used as a trade pidgin in W Africa
2. plural -nis or -ni another name for Fula (sense 1)
3. plural -nis or -ni
a humped breed of cattle from W Africa
adjective
4. 
of or relating to the Fula or their language

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Fulani

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noun
1. Word forms: plural ˈFulanis or ˈFulani
a member of a people living chiefly in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, and Niger
2. 
Fula
adjective
3. 
of the Fulanis or their language or culture

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fulani

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n. pl. Fulani or Fu·la·nis also Fula or Fu·las
1. A member of a pastoral, largely Muslim people inhabiting parts of West Africa from northern Nigeria to Mali and the Atlantic coast.
2. The Atlantic language of this people, widely used as a lingua franca in West Africa.

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