fellah
Americannoun
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fellahs,
plural
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fellahin,
plural
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fellaheen
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fellah
First recorded in 1735–45; from Arabic fallāḥ, fellāḥ “peasant”
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Example Sentences
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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
As for Rocky, he rambled through picturesque hamlets in a chartered bus, seemed to thrive on an endless round of "Hi there, fellah" sessions on frozen street corners.
From Time Magazine Archive
"At first we thought the school would ruin us," said one middle-aged fellah.
From Time Magazine Archive
“He’s dead, poor fellah, and can’t hunt any more.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The son of fellaheen, he came from Egypt's soil.
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
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
That the all-conquering Marcus Antonius should have been beaten up by a crowd of Egyptian fellaheen, who trembled at the very mention of his name, struck her as the joke of the century.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
The fellaheen can no longer eat bread; they are living on barley-meal mixed with water, and raw green stuff, vetches, | &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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
But the display of legitimacy was mere show-window stuff for the fellahin in Cairo's bazaars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Highlights: the country's long exploited fellahin should get political representation; nationalization of basic industries will continue; a vast social welfare program will aim at improving the lot of Egypt's downtrodden millions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vast numbers of displaced fellahin spend their lives in one room, sleeping on the floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The coronation took place at Memphis, and a decree was made lightening the burdens of the country, relieving the fellahin from being impressed for the navy, and granting further endowments to the priests.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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
With all that can be wrung from the miserable fellahs, taxed to the utmost limit of endurance, still the expenses outrun enormously the income.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
Rippin' looking lot of gells, rippin' fellahs, rippin' good songs, too.
From The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams
The fellahs or fellahin constitute about three-fourths of the population of Egypt, and are mostly the direct descendants of the old Egyptians, although both their language and religion are now that of their Arabian conquerors.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
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