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FULANI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fulani mean? 

FULANI (noun)
  The noun FULANI has 2 senses:

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

2. 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 languagesplay

  Familiarity information: FULANI used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FULANI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fellata; Fula; Fulah; Fulani; Fulbe

Hypernyms ("Fulani" is a kind of...):

African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Ful; Fula; Fulani; Peul

Hypernyms ("Fulani" is a kind of...):

West African (a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa)


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