toubab/tu.bab/EtymologyThe 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.toubab means A white person. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.toubab is pronounced /tu.bab/.nounA white person.“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.”