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fellah|ˈfɛlə|
Pl. fellaheen, fellahs; fellahin (now the usual form).
[a. Arab. fellāḥ husbandman, f. falaḥa to till the soil.]
A peasant in Arabic-speaking countries; in Eng. applied esp. to those of Egypt. Also fig.
1743Pococke Descr. East I. 177 The Mahometan inhabitants of Egypt are either original natives, in the villages call'd Filaws, or they are of the Arab race. 1802Ann. Reg. 742 The Fellahs..are the farmers and husbandmen of the country. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. (1858) 22 note, ‘Fellah’ and ‘Fellahîn’ the inhabitants of villages and cultivated ground. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxii. 714 Farther on, the brown Fellaheen..are cutting clover. 1912[see Bedu]. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 86/3 Cities and civilization dying of inanition after eating up the best of the rural population and leaving only the fellahin type. 1947S. Bellow Victim i. 3 The people.., barbaric fellahin among the stupendous monuments of their mystery. |