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Definition of Fellata
1. Noun. A member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fellata
Literary usage of Fellata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"This nation of Fellata appears to be in great strength throughout Soudan ; they
have spread ... The Fellata have attacked and pillaged both Bornou and ..."
2. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1896)
"These Fulbe (or Fellata, as they are called in all the eastern parts of Sudan)
... With the exception of this Fellata settlement, a few Arab or Shuwa tribes ..."
3. Travels in Nubia; by John Lewis Burckhardt (1819)
"This nation of Fellata appears to be in great strength throughout Soudan : they
have spread ... The Fellata have attacked and pillaged both Bornou and ..."
4. A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20 by George Francis Lyon (1821)
"The natives are now a settled people, but were once wanderers of the warlike
tribe of Fellata, who, some years since, came from the west, and succeeded in ..."
5. The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described by Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Forbes (1854)
"There are other Fula, Fellata, and Filani localities, but an enumeration of the
foregoing has been sufficient. It shows the vast space of ground covered by ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1821)
"... through Melli in the country of the Fellata; thence to Kebbi, which is three
days north of ... a Fellata country SW of ..."
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