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
Next to him comes the fellah, the timeless peasant working the timeless land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fellah costs 580 a day to hire; the gamoosa, 690.
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
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
Only Cairo could do anything, and everything is done to please the Cairenes at the expense of the fellaheen.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
The early morning scene of industrious blue-robed fellaheen at work in the green fields, the graceful palms, desert hills, and blue sky thrilled the one artistic fibre which had strayed into his soul.
From The Tale of a Trooper by Mackenzie, Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes)
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
Farouk diligently toured Egypt and was acutely aware of the crushing, age-old poverty of the fellahin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Effendis and fellahin gossiped excitedly about the news, wondered if Nationalist Nahas Pasha's dismissal might be connected with the Pan-Arab conference, which wound up its sessions in Alexandria last week.
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 or peasantry and the native townsmen.
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
And the thing for you and me to do is to get ourselves in some kind of shape so we can shake hands with 'em when they arrive, and say, 'Hello, fellahs, come right in.
From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest
Ismail broke his contract with the canal company and would furnish no fellahs.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Hunt, Eleonora
They're no good at over a mile, but for the first few months your fellahs will be lucky if they hit a man at a hundred yards.
From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest
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