1. (noun)Fulani, Fula, Fulah, Fellata, Fulbe a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
2. (noun)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