See also: wolof and wòlof

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Wiktionary
Wolof edition of Wiktionary

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Etymology

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From Wolof Wolof.[1]

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Proper noun

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Wolof

  1. A West African people, mostly in Senegal.
  2. The language traditionally spoken by those people.
  3. (historical) The former realm of the Wolof, maintained from the 14th to the 19th centuries.

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The spelling Wolof is the most common in reference to the people and their language, but the variant spellings "Jolof" and "Jollof" are more common when used in reference to their former polity ("Jolof Empire" or "Kingdom") and a native rice dish ("jollof rice"), respectively.

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Noun

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Wolof (plural Wolofs or Wolof)

  1. An individual member of the Wolof people.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Wolof, n. and adj." in the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1986.

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French

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Noun

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Wolof m (plural Wolofs)

  1. a member of the Wolof people
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Wolof

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Proper noun

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Wolof

  1. Wolof