"toubab" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The most likely earliest derivation is from the Wolof word for Europe, \"Tougal\". In the same way that Wolof means the people of Jollof, Toubab means the people of Tougal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toubabs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "toubab (plural toubabs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "West African English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, David Diop, chapter 10, in Anna Moschovakis, transl., At Night All Blood Is Black, London: Pushkin:",
          "text": "Jean-Baptiste was my only real white friend in the trench. He was the only Toubab who came to console me after the death of Mademba Diop.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A white person."
      ],
      "id": "en-toubab-en-noun-qcoW7nC2",
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(West Africa, Central Africa) A white person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "white person"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Africa",
        "Central",
        "West"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "toubab"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tu.bab/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toubab"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The most likely earliest derivation is from the Wolof word for Europe, \"Tougal\". In the same way that Wolof means the people of Jollof, Toubab means the people of Tougal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toubabs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "toubab (plural toubabs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "West African English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, David Diop, chapter 10, in Anna Moschovakis, transl., At Night All Blood Is Black, London: Pushkin:",
          "text": "Jean-Baptiste was my only real white friend in the trench. He was the only Toubab who came to console me after the death of Mademba Diop.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A white person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(West Africa, Central Africa) A white person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Africa",
        "Central",
        "West"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "toubab"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tu.bab/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "white person"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toubab"
}