The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fellah \Fel"lah\, n.; pl. Ar. Fellahin, E. Fellahs. [Ar.]
A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians,
Syrians, etc.
--W. M. Thomson.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of fellah English)
Usage examples of "fellahs".
Deprive people of the fruits of their labor, and yet more, force them to produce by fear, confiscate their time, their painstaking efforts and their persons, reduce them to the condition of fellahs, create in them the sentiments of fellahs, and you will have nothing but the labor and productions of fellahs, that is to say, a minimum of labor and production, and hence, insufficient supplies for sustaining a very dense population, which, multiplied through a superior and more productive civilization, will not long subsist under a barbarous, inferior and unproductive régime.
The porters and fellahs rushed down the quay, and a dozen boats pushed off from the shore to go and meet the steamer.
You know, you fellahs can do what you want with that cloth, but out on my camel I’ve got some erotic drawings from the East that are going to be worth something someday.
You know, you fellahs can do what you want with that cloth, but out on my camel I've got some erotic drawings from the East that are going to be worth something someday.
Is it right for this secret agent to say the great General Rommel puts his nose into little fellahs first thing every morning?