What is "fellah"

Usage examples of "fellah".

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Nuclear plants are an abomination, Elward had been told by black minister fellah, Bobby MaGee.

He killed that lanky highpocketed fellah down there in the pit of hell itself.

While the Egyptian fellah and the Moorish peasant were labouring in the fields, the sturdy beggars of Byzantium and Rome were amusing themselves at the circus or basking on marble in the sun.

At first their manners, gentle and pliable, contrast pleasantly with the roughness of the half-breds, Huwaytat and Maknawi, who have many of the demerits of the Fellah, without acquiring the merits of the Bedawi.

I watched the fellah until it was too dark: becoming smaller, inching closer to the sea with every swell but never slackening his pace.

Do you mean the cooks and grooms, the carpenters and masons, the beggars, fellahin and grave-diggers?

Nowhere have I heard it suggested that the Egyptian fellahin are good soldierly material.

The fellahin may be cruel and callous, but they are not fierce and bloodthirsty.

Egyptian fellahin are mastiffs, then the Arabs are Jack Russell terriers.

The Shepherd Kings were associated in the minds of the Egyptian fellahin, not with their ancient and revered religion, not with the laws by which they were still governed under their local chiefs, but only with the tribute of corn which was extorted from them every harvest by the whip.

Only the sailor - I never saw his face - one of your fellahin who abandon the land like a restless husband and then grumble for the rest of their term afloat.

The flotilla thus unprotected fell in with seven Turkish gunboats coming from Cairo, and was exposed simultaneously to their fire and to that of the Mamelukes, fellahs, and Arabs who lined both banks of the river.

He was dressed like a fellah, with the long blue yelek, and a poor wool fez, and round the fez was a white cloth, as it were to protect his mouth from the night air, after the manner of the peasant.

The Cairenes, or native citizens, differ from the fellahin in having a much larger mixture of Arab blood, and are at once keener witted and more conservative than the peasantry.