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
The darweesh some say is killed, others that he is gone off into the desert with a body of bedaween and a few of the fellaheen from the three ravaged villages.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
These things had caused profound discontent and had roused among the fellaheen not merely passive dislike but active hatred of British rule.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
