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Jolof

Jolof is the alternative form of Wolof.

Meaning of Wolof

Proper noun

Wolof

  1. A West African people, mostly in Senegal.
  2. The language traditionally spoken by those people.
    • ‘But come on: haven’t you learnt even a little bit of Wolof yet?’2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 221
  3. (historical) The former realm of the Wolof, maintained from the 14th to the 19th centuries.

See all 4 meanings of Wolof

Forms of Jolof

pluralJolofs
pluralJolof

Questions about Jolof

What is Jolof the alternative form of?
Jolof is the alternative form of Wolof.

Words near Jolof in the dictionary

  1. jollytail
  2. jollytails
  3. Jolo
  4. Joloano
  5. Joloanos
  6. Jolof
  7. Jolofs
  8. jolpan
  9. jols
  10. Jolson
  11. Jolsonian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jolof (page history and authors); Wolof (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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