fulani

noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about fulani at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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