fr 4/AP - Unité 6 L'Afrique de l'Ouest
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 L'agriculture | the agriculture |
| une zone climatique | a climatic zone |
| une forêt tropicale | a tropical forest |
| le sahel | the Sahel |
| la savane | the savannah |
| le désert | the desert |
| le cacao | the cocoa |
| l'huile de palme | palm oil |
| le coton | the cotton |
| manquer de | to lack |
| être au chômage | to be unemployed |
| la grogne | the discontent |
| la famine | famine |
| la sécheresse | drought |
| la surpopulation | over population |
| mendier | to beg |
| un/e mendiant/e | a begger |
| une aumône | alms |
| la dette | the debt |
| élever des animaux | to raise animals |
| cultiver (la terre) | to cultivate |
| labourer (les champs) | to work (fields) |
| semer | to plant seeds |
| faire la moisson | to harves |
| traire | to milk |
| l'agriculteur/-trice | farmer |
| le/la fermier/-ière | farmer |
| le/la cultivateur/-trice | cultivator |
| le/la berger/-ère | shepherd |
| le champ | the field |
| le pré | the meadow |
| le verger | the orchard |
| la charrue | the plow |
| le tracteur | the tractor |
| le grenier | the granary |
| le bouc | the billy goat |
| la chèvre | the goat |
| le dromadaire | the dromedary |
| le zébu | breed of African cattle |
| le boeuf | the ox |
| la vache | the cow |
| la poule | the chicken |
| le mouton | the sheep |
| la brebis | the ewe |
| le cochon | the pig |
| l'âne | the donkey |
| le mil | the millet |
| la calabasse | a type of large gourd |
| les Wolofs (agriculteurs) | Wolof (Senegal) |
| les Sérères (agriculteurs) | Serer (Senegal) |
| les Diolas (agriculteurs) | Diola (Senegal) |
| les Peuls (nomades/éleveurs) | Fulani (Peulh) (Mali, Senegal) |
| les Toucouleurs (nomades/éleveurs) | Toucouleur (Mali, Senegal) |
| les Bambaras (agriculteurs) | Bambara (Mali) |
| les Bobos (agriculteurs) | Bobo (Mali) |
| les Dogons (agriculteurs) | Dogon (Mali) |
| les Sénoufos (agriculteurs) | Senofu (Mali) |
| les Malinkés (commerçants) | Malinke (Mali) |
| les Sonrhaïs (pêcheurs) | Songhai (Mali) |
| les Bozos (pcheurs) | Bozo (Mali) |
| la culture | the culture |
| le marabout | marabout, Muslim religious teacher |
| un talibé | talibe, young boy who lives and works for a marabout |
| un syncrétisme | syncretism (combining together) |
| l'islam | Islam |
| le christianisme | Christianity |
| les religions indigenes | indigenous religions |
| une confrérie | a brotherhood (religious) |
| le sérigne | the head marabout |
| un pèlerinage | a pilgrimage |
| les mourides | Mourides (a major brotherhood in Senegal) |
| l'animisme | animism (traditional religions) |
| la polygamie | the polygamy |
| une concession | a compound (family) |
| une case | a hut, dwelling |
| un griot | griot (an elder who has all the knowledge of a group) |
| un boubou | boubou (W. African dress) |
| un gris-gris | an amulet |
| la cora | the cora (African harp) |
| un sage | a wise man, a sage |
| flatter | to flatter |
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