fula

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsFulaniFulahFellataFulbe

   BroaderAfrican
2. 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 languages

   SynonymsFulFulaniPeul

   BroaderWest African

Other forms of fula

plural

fulas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fula

What does fula mean?

fula means "a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fula?

fula has 2 syllables: fu-la. The stress falls on "fu".

What is another word for fula?

Close synonyms include Fulani, Fulah, Fellata, Fulbe, Ful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fula a common word?

fula is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.