fellah
noun
a peasant or laborer in Arabic-speaking countries, especially Egypt.
fellaheen
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pluralof fellah.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 little more than half belong to the peasant class and are known as "fellaheen."
From Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
While the man was ill numbers of the fellaheen brought eggs, pigeons, etc. etc. even a turkey, and food is worth money now, not as it used to be.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
