Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A peasant or agricultural laborer in an Arab country, such as Syria or Egypt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Egyptian or Syrian peasant, laborer, or tiller of the soil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
peasant ,farmer oragricultural laborer in theMiddle East andNorth Africa . - noun Alternative spelling of
fella .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agricultural laborer in Arab countries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Though I am in truth a Turk, and those who serve and rob me here are Turks, yet the fellah is the same as he was five thousand years ago.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Though I am in truth a Turk, and those who serve and rob me here are Turks, yet the fellah is the same as he was five thousand years ago.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Though I am in truth a Turk, and those who serve and rob me here are Turks, yet the fellah is the same as he was five thousand years ago.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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The great man remained a big man to the last days of the Ptolemies, and the fellah was always a dwarf. 6
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[6] A fellah is a peasant, one of the labouring class, just above the slave.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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Some kind of agent character Grosvenor muses on 'fellah' cultures that become too conservative and resistant and violent against change, and then uses superpowers to take over the ship.
The Blal by A.E. Van Vogt patternjuggler 2007
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Some kind of agent character Grosvenor muses on 'fellah' cultures that become too conservative and resistant and violent against change, and then uses superpowers to take over the ship.
Archive 2007-05-02 patternjuggler 2007
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I have described one of the poorest of the "fellah" villages, but the traveller is often more luxuriously housed.
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897
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"All right sir, pass in sir, excuse me sir," says my very polite guard, and a "fellah" that "knows the ropes," is admitted.
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"Wal, Tom he lay there a waitin '; and he waited and waited and waited, till he' most got asleep; but finally he heard a stirrin 'in the box, as if the fellah was a gettin' up.
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
fbharjo commented on the word fellah
fellows cultivate?
April 14, 2012