1. 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; [syn: Fula, Ful, Fulani, Peul]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Peul
n 1: 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 [syn:
Fula, Ful, Fulani, Peul]