[
US
/ˌfuˈɫɑni/
]
NOUN
- a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
- 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
How To Use Fulani In A Sentence
- Thanks to the Fulani cattle herders, fresh milk and yogurt are common even though there may not be refrigeration.
- Fulani, Malinke, Soussou and other indigenous languages.
- The formative study found that among the Sosso, Fulani and Maninka, all girls are expected to be circumcised.
- The pastoral Fulani (full-time cattle keepers) move about with their cattle for much of the year.
- Fulani men are less involved in the production of crafts such as pottery, iron-working, and dyeing than some neighboring peoples.
- To emphasize the wide range and variety of these garments, Gardi also illustrates boubous from the Guinea Coast, Fulani and Wodaabe boubous from Mali and Niger, and Bamana shirts embroidered by ‘Ghana Boys.’
- The Ancient Ethiopians (also called Kushites and Meroites – from Meroe their last Pre-Christian capital in the area of today's Bagrawiyah in Sudan) were Kuhites – associated with the Modern Kushites of the Horn of Africa, the Oromos, the Sidamas, the Somalis, and also with the Berbers of Kabylia (Algeria), the Tuareg, and the Fulani and Hausa speaking nations of Western Africa. Open Letter to H. E. Mr. Gurjit Singh, Ambassador of India in Abyssinia (Fake 'Ethiopia')
- Tuareg and Fulani women wear dark clothes dyed with indigo.
- Fulani's minor-party ticket will appear on the November ballot in nearly all 50 states.
- Scott and Mary Crickmore poured 15 years of their lives into helping to translate the New Testament in the Maasina dialect. It was for the Fulani tribe in the West African nation of Mali.
