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Definition: Fula |
FulaNoun1. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African Niger-Congo languages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FulaSynonyms: Fulah (n), Fulani (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Fula are traditionally a nomadic, pastoral race, herding cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their domain, keeping somewhat separate from the local agricultural populations. They are the only major migrating people of West Africa.
They speak the Pulaar language, or variants thereof, as do the Tukulor; all local people who speak that language natively are known as the "halpulaar". The traditional dress of the Fula in most places is long colorful flowing robes, modestly embroidered or otherwise decorated. Most Fula in the countryside spend long times alone on foot, moving their herds.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fula."
Crosswords: Fula |
| English words defined with "Fula": Fulah, Fulani ♦ Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language ♦ Serer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fula" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (feel, grope), Portuguese (fulani). |
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Economic History | Guinea-Bissau | Ethnic groups: Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinka 13%, Papel 7%. (references) |
Gambia, The | Languages: English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous languages. (references) | |
Gambia, The | The Mandinka tribe is the largest, followed by the Fula, Wolof, Jola, and Serahuli. (references) | |
Travel | Guinea | Local languages (Soussou, Fula, Malinke) are also widely spoken. (references) |
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| "Fula" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fula" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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bilder fula | 7 |
fula yafeu | 6 |
fula människor | 5 |
couple fula | 4 |
fula | 3 |
djur fula små | 3 |
fula gubbar | 2 |
ansikten fula | 2 |
fiskar fula | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "Fula": scrofula. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Fula": scrofulas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-u" | |
-1 letter: flu. | |
-2 letters: al, fa, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-u" | |
+1 letter: afoul, awful, fauld, fault, fugal, luffa, sulfa. | |
+2 letters: afflux, aidful, aimful, armful, artful, bagful, canful, capful, carful, earful, facula, famuli, faucal, faulds, faults, faulty, faunal, fecula, ferula, feudal, fibula, flatus, flaunt, frugal, fulcra, fulham, fullam, fulmar, fungal, hatful, jarful, lapful, lawful, luffas, manful, panful, sulfas, vatful, waeful. | |
+3 letters: alfaqui, antiflu, armfuls, armsful, awfully, bagfuls, bagsful, baleful, baneful, bashful, boatful, buffalo, cageful, canfuls, cansful, capfuls, careful, carfuls, dareful, default, earfuls, easeful, fabliau, fabular, factful, factual, faculae, facular, faculty, failure, fallout, famulus, fateful, faucals, faucial, faulted, fearful, feculae, felucca, ferulae, ferulas, fibulae, fibular, fibulas, figural, fistula, flaneur, flareup, flaunts, flaunty, flavour, fluidal, fluvial, formula, foulard, frenula, fugally, fulhams, fullams, fulmars, funeral, fungals, furcula, futural, gainful, handful, harmful, hateful, hatfuls, hatsful, jarfuls, jarsful, lapfuls, moanful, mudflap, mudflat, outfall, pailful, painful, panfuls, playful, qualify, rackful, refusal, refutal, sackful, sulfate, swayful, tactful, tankful, tearful, trayful, vatfuls, wailful, wakeful, wameful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40877867 |
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