fellah
noun
a peasant or laborer in Arabic-speaking countries, especially Egypt.
fellahin
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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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But the display of legitimacy was mere show-window stuff for the fellahin in Cairo's bazaars.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In the countryside a few hundred thousand fellahin are farming their own land for the first time since the Pharaohs.
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 knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
