fulbe
Speech parts
1. fulbe - Noun
2. Fulbe - Proper noun
Meaning
Same as Fulahs.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Hypernyms
Examples
Here, they established Muslim Fulbe empires - so-called emirates (which is the European term), all subordinated to the Sokoto Caliphate of Uthman dan Fodio.
During the 1880s, the Fulbe aristocrat Hayatu established a new empire with its headquarters in the little town and lamidate of Balda, north of Maroua, Diamaré.
The difference in perspective is reflective, by this count, not of the content and import of speech (the harshest of which has been the lot of Fulbe to receive), but of the different co-ordinates defining our respective loci in the hierachy of cultures.
The "caliphate" of the Fulbe was to become the biggest and most influential empire of Central Sudan in the 19th century.
Some Fulbe converted to Islam as early as the 11th century and settled among the Hausa, from whom they became racially indistinguishable.