Crossword clues for fulani
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulahs \Fu"lahs`\, Foolahs \Foo"lahs`\, Fulani \Fu"la*ni\, n. pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolah. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language.
Fulani \Fu"la*ni\ n.
The language of the Fulani people, a member of the
Niger-Congo family of languages.
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Wikipedia
Fulani may refer to:
- pertaining to the Fulani Empire
- pertaining to the Fulani War
- Yasir Al-Fulani, a character from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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Fula people (autonym Fulɓe)
- Hausa-Fulani, a larger grouping which the Fulani belong to
- Fula language or Fulfulde language
- Dan Fulani, a Nigerian author
- Lenora Fulani, an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and political activist.
- Red Fulani cattle
- White Fulani cattle
Usage examples of "fulani".
Bonnard knew his name was Abu Auda and that he was a member of the Fulani tribe from the Sahel region at the southern edge of the Sahara, where the dry, forbidding desert met lush forest and grasslands.
Perhaps a Fulani from the tribe of fierce nomads who once ruled the southern edge of the Sahara.
But just as he reached the window and discovered an empty office inside, the tall Fulani in the long white robes, who had patrolled earlier, appeared from around the back of the farmhouse, gun up and ready.
It was time to remind the Fulani and his men that they were dealing with more than just one opponent.
He looked more closely and saw the dark Fulani had arisen to his full, erect height and was standing defiant in his white robes at the edge of the windbreak.
But I never saw him make contact with any other known terrorist except that big Fulani, Abu Auda.
With both hands, the giant Fulani lifted the sword a few inches and, with it, the dying Basque.
She wanted to see the face of the man whom they had called the Fulani, the black one, who could kill a friend as easily as an enemy.
Sitting back in the dim interior, she considered what she had learned: First, the black Crescent Shield leader from the Fulani tribe was named Abu Auda and he spoke Spanish and Arabic.
Militants from all parts of the Muslim world: Arabs from many countries, Afghans, a Fulani from northern Nigeriahellip.
Militants from all parts of the Muslim world: Arabs from many countries, Afghans, a Fulani from northern Nigeriawho knows who else.
The rustle grew in volume as the week passed, not only in America but in numerous foreign lands, although the pitch was obviously more mighty in New Orleans, where the Super Bowl would actually be played, than in, say, Ouagadougou, where fans who normally spoke Fulani or Bobo would yell "Touchydown!
The presidential candidate of the New Alliance Party, an articulate, angry woman named Lenora Fulani, did what she could to help them, bringing her supporters to a health-care event I held in a Harlem hospital and shouting down my speech.
The Europeans essentially roamed the shores of West Africa, taking advantage in turn of the collapse of the Jolof empire in Senegam-bia, of the conquests of the Manez and Fulani peoples in the region of Sierra Leone and Guinea, of the expansions of the Benin and Oyo states in the vicinity of Yorubaland, and of the conquests of the Ashanti and various Akan peoples along the Gold Coast of Ghana.