Definition of Fellata

1. Noun. A member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith.

Exact synonyms: Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe
Generic synonyms: African

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fellata

Felis concolor
Felis domesticus
Felis manul
Felis ocreata
Felis onca
Felis pardalis
Felis serval
Felis silvestris
Felis tigrina
Felis wiedi
Felis yagouaroundi
Felix Klein
Felix Mendelssohn
Felixstowe
Feliz Lusitania
Felliniesque
Feltre
Felty's syndrome
Fender
Fendt
Feng Shui
Fengtien
Feni District
Fenian
Fenian Cycle
Fenianism
Fenianisms
Fenians
Fenn effect

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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