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Fouta Djallon, Fuuta Jalon
Fouta may refer to: * Fouta Djallon, a highland region in the centre of Guinea * Fouta towel The fouta (also spelled futa; ) is a piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric, used in many Mediterranean countries and Yemen. Among other uses, they were worn, by both men and women, wrapped around the body while at the public baths in 19th ..., a piece of thin patterned fabric used in many Mediterranean countries * Fouta Toro, a region along the border of Senegal and Mauritania See also * Futa (other) * Foutanké (horse) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouta Djallon
Fouta Djallon (, , ; ) is a Highland (geography), highland region in the center of Guinea, roughly corresponding with Middle Guinea, in West Africa. Etymology The Fulani people call the region Fouta Jallon Kingdom, Fuuta-Jaloo ( ) in the Pular language. 'Futa' is a Fula language, Fula word for any region inhabited by the . 'Djallon' means 'mountain' in old Yalunka language, Jallonke.Mohamed Saidou N’Daou. “Sangalan Oral Traditions as Philosophy and Ideologies.” History in Africa, vol. 26, 1999, pp. 239–67. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3172143. Accessed 23 Oct. 2024. French is the official language of Guinea, and or sometimes is the French spelling. Common English spellings include ''Futa Jallon'' and ''Futa Jalon''. The French, during the colonial period, wrote: * “The name of this region has often been spelled ‘Fouta‑Djallon’, with a ‘j’ after the capital ‘D’, which contradicts the local pronunciation: the natives themselves all say ‘Fouta‑Diall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouta Towel
The fouta (also spelled futa; ) is a piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric, used in many Mediterranean countries and Yemen. Among other uses, they were worn, by both men and women, wrapped around the body while at the public baths in 19th-century Syria. In Algeria, conservative women wore the fouta draped over their '' sarouel'' garment. Similarly, in some parts of southern Saudi Arabia, men would wear the fouta as a loincloth beneath their '' thawb'' robes, or just by itself while relaxing at home. Foutas are widely used today in the occidental world as Turkish bath towels (hammam towels) or even beach towels. It is also used as headwear in Somalia Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ... some examples could be the Somali aristocracy, Dubats and the general Soma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouta Toro
Futa Toro ( Wolof and , , ; ), often simply the Futa, is a semidesert region around the middle run of the Senegal River. This region, along the border of Senegal and Mauritania, is historically significant as the center of several Fulani states, and a source of jihad armies and migrants to the Fouta Djallon. The word Futa is a general name the Fulbe gave to any area they lived in, while Toro was the actual identity of the region for its inhabitants, likely derived from the ancient kingdom of Takrur. The people of the area mostly speak Pulaar, a dialect of the Fula language that spans West Africa from Senegal to Cameroon. They identified themselves by the language giving rise to the name Haalpulaar'en meaning those who speak Pulaar. The Haalpulaar'en are also known as Toucouleurs (var. ''Tukolor''), a name also derived from of Takrur. Geography The Futa Toro stretches for about 400 kilometers, but only a narrow band of up to 20 kilometers on either side of the Senegal River is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futa (other)
Futa may refer to: Geography *Futa Pass in the Apennines, Italy *Futa River, Chile * Futa, Ghana, a community in Ghana *Fouta Djallon, Guinea *Futa Tooro, a region along the Senegal River *Imamate of Futa Jallon *Imamate of Futa Toro Acronyms *Federal Unemployment Tax Act (US) *Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria People *André-Philippe Futa, Congolese politician *Yasunosuke Futa, Japanese village chief and architect *Futa Helu, Tongan philosopher, historian, and educator *Futa Nakamura (born 1991), known as Ben-K, Japanese wrestler Other *Fouta towel or futa towel, a piece of cloth worn in a skirt-like fashion in certain countries *Futa (red panda), a famous standing Japanese red panda *FUTA, an e-bike made by Ducati *Futa, an abbreviation for futanari is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, which is also used in a broader sense for androgyny. Krauss, Friedrich Salomo et al. ''Japanisches Geschlechtsleben: Abhandlungen und Erhebungen über das Geschlech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
