Associations to the word «Fula»

Wiktionary

FULA, proper noun. A West-African people.
FULA, proper noun. A member of that people.
FULA, proper noun. A language spoken in West Africa.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats