Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fula
2 senses of fula
Sense 1
Fulani, Fula, Fulah, Fellata, Fulbe -- (a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith)
=> African -- (a native or inhabitant of Africa)
Sense 2
Fula, Ful, Fulani, Peul -- (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)
=> West African -- (a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa)