fellah
Americannoun
-
fellahs,
plural
-
fellahin,
plural
-
fellaheen
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fellah
First recorded in 1735–45; from Arabic fallāḥ, fellāḥ “peasant”
Vocabulary lists containing fellah
Africa - Introductory
Looking to grow your vocabulary? Check out this interactive, curated word list from our team of English language specialists at Vocabulary.com – one of over 17,000 lists we've built to help learners worldwide!
Africa - Middle School
Interested in learning more words like this one? Our team at Vocabulary.com has got you covered! You can review flashcards, quiz yourself, practice spelling, and more – and it's all completely free to use!
Africa - High School
Want to remember this word for good? Start your learning journey today with our library of interactive, themed word lists built by the experts at Vocabulary.com – we'll help you make the most of your study time!
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
I refuse to be called a Mainer, young fellah, and no one calls me Bub and expects anything but a hard frost.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
Adrian Peterson again, great run big fellah, a 17-yard run, he takes a pass and just charges up guts and carries a dozen or so Niners with him.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2015
But with the death in 1927 of its founder, a onetime fellah named Saad Zagluhl, the party began to sag and split.
From Time Magazine Archive
Senile Safsaf, as her husband was called, a onetime fellah who rose to boss Egypt's Wafd Party, blossomed out in Sulka ties, hired a valet, vacationed on the Riviera.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Come back, my dear fellah, I’m over here.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Egypt's 18-year-old King Farouk last week drove through Cairo streets, sardine-packed with cheering, cotton-robed fellaheen to open the first Parliament elected since his Coronation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Younis has bought new equipment, trimmed the canal banks with the help of 30,000 fellaheen digging by hand, and dredged the canal to the old maximum depth of 35 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The son of fellaheen, he came from Egypt's soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sixth Soudanese battalion was raised in 1896, and in that and the following year four additional fellaheen battalions were added to the army.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
A great boon has been conferred on the fellaheen by the experimental money advances made by Government to tide them over till their cotton-crop is ripe.
From Cities of the Dawn by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
In the countryside a few hundred thousand fellahin are farming their own land for the first time since the Pharaohs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We cannot displace these poor fellahin, "he explained.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Aswan itself, 430 miles upstream from Cairo, thousands of white-robed fellahin flocked along the Nile's reddish-granite brink.
From Time Magazine Archive
Military trucks and buses were commandeered to bring fellahin in from their farms, and the army saw to it that Moslem demonstrators did not lose a day's pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fellahin furnish three squadrons, five batteries, three garrison artillery companies and nine battalions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
By Jove, you know, fellahs don’t fight like that for a shop-till!’”
From Time ● May 25, 2014
The big fellahs will be having a quiet Sunday lunch together, and Geoff Cross will pack down at Murrayfield.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013
In the distance, above the mud hovels of the fellahs towered, like plumes of feathers, the crowns of date palms.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Muscular fellahs, or peasants, in brown skull caps, and blue shirts which reached to their ankles, their feet bare, their teeth remarkable for whiteness, sauntered along chewing stalks of sugar-cane.
From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob
When the ennui never ends, And I yearn a friend to hold, I've the fellahs, mummies, friends, Of the dynasties of old.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
