fellah

American  

[fel-uh] / ˈfɛl ə /

noun

• fellahs,
  plural
• fellahin,
  plural
• fellaheen
  plural

1. a peasant or laborer in Arabic-speaking countries, especially Egypt.

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fellah British  

/ ˈfɛlə /

noun

1. a peasant in Arab countries

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• fellaheen
  plural
• fellahin
  plural
• fellahs
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of fellah

First recorded in 1735–45; from Arabic fallāḥ, fellāḥ “peasant”

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

fellah fellaheen fellahin fellahs

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

The fellah costs 580 a day to hire; the gamoosa, 690.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

“He’s dead, poor fellah, and can’t hunt any more.”

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

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

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

Now, I want to know whether it would be to the benefit of the fellaheen if I visited the theatre more frequently?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Now Dorothy has left the fellahin class, and at roughly $1,000 a week is a member of Hollywood's petite bourgeoisie.

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

Though the Russians, despite their equipment failures, performed well under difficult conditions, the real "heroes of labor" on the Aswan job were the Egyptian fellahin.

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

Vegetables and Fruit.—Vegetables grow readily, and their cultivation is an important part of the work of the fellahin.

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

"I tell you fellahs, I …" "So you're afraid, eh?"

From Over the Line by Harold Morrow Sherman

The mules, whipped by the fellahs, trot noiselessly towards the fortress; the host ambles after them along the narrow path.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai

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

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