"Wolof" meaning in English

See Wolof in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈwɒlɒf/, /ˈwəʊlɒf/
Etymology: From the Wolof self-designation Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|wo|-}} Wolof Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Wolof
  1. A West African people, mostly in Senegal. Categories (topical): Ethnonyms Categories (place): Africa, Historical polities Translations (people): wòlofs [masculine, plural] (Catalan), Wolofs [masculine, plural] (French), wólof [masculine] (Galician), volofai [masculine, plural] (Lithuanian), wolof [masculine, plural] (Portuguese), wolof [masculine] (Romanian), wolof (Spanish), Mwolofu (Swahili)
    Sense id: en-Wolof-en-name-FquHWVws Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 44 27 17 11 Disambiguation of Africa: 100 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Historical polities: 40 32 27 1 Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 42 40 4 Disambiguation of 'people': 56 44 0
  2. The language traditionally spoken by those people. Categories (topical): Languages Translations (language): wolofera (Basque), wòlof [masculine] (Catalan), wolof [masculine] (French), wólof [masculine] (Galician), Volaifis [feminine] (Irish), volofų kalba [feminine] (Lithuanian), wolof [masculine] (Portuguese), wolofă [feminine] (Romanian), wolof (Spanish), Kiwolofu (Swahili)
    Sense id: en-Wolof-en-name-LPNdFtU5 Disambiguation of Languages: 27 58 14 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 43 49 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 42 40 4 Disambiguation of 'language': 0 94 6
  3. (historical) The former realm of the Wolof, maintained from the 14th to the 19th centuries. Tags: historical Synonyms: Wollof, Woloff, Jolof, Jollof, Djolof, Ouolof, Olof, Volof
    Sense id: en-Wolof-en-name-Xr4xoYWR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 43 49 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 42 40 4

Noun

IPA: /ˈwɒlɒf/, /ˈwəʊlɒf/ Forms: Wolofs [plural], Wolof [plural]
Etymology: From the Wolof self-designation Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|wo|-}} Wolof Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Wolof}} Wolof (plural Wolofs or Wolof)
  1. An individual member of the Wolof people.
    Sense id: en-Wolof-en-noun-t~IlVF7e

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Alternative forms

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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.