fulani

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsFulaFulahFellataFulbe

   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

   SynonymsFulaFulPeul

   BroaderWest African

Other forms of fulani

plural

fulanis·

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 fulani

What does fulani mean?

fulani 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 fulani?

fulani has 3 syllables: fu-la-ni. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌfuˈlɑni/.

What is another word for fulani?

Close synonyms include Fula, Fulah, Fellata, Fulbe, Fula. 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 fulani a common word?

fulani 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.