fellah

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛlə/ Rhymes: -ɛlə === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743. ==== Noun ==== fellah (plural fellahs or fellahin or fellaheen) A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. 1920, Archibald Sayce, “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore” in Folk-Lore 31 p. 176 Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fellaḥ in the neighbourhood of Cairo had become Mohammedan, the Mohammedan Arab had become a townsman with a townsman’s sense of superiority over the country bumpkin. 1929-1930, H P Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth And at the last from inner Egypt came // The strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow. ==== Noun ==== fellah (plural fellahs) Alternative spelling of fella. == French == === Noun === fellah m (plural fellahs) fellah (peasant or farmer) === Further reading === “fellah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ), from Aramaic פלחא / ܦܠܚܐ (pallāḥā, “worker; peasant”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /felˈla/* Rhymes: -a Hyphenation: fel‧làh === Noun === fellah m (invariable) fellah === Further reading === fellah in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛl.lɑ/ === Noun === fellah m (definite singular fellahen, indefinite plural fellaher, definite plural fellahene) a fellah === References === “fellah” in The Bokmål Dictionary. “fellah” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB). == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛl.lɑ/ === Noun === fellah m (definite singular fellahen, indefinite plural fellaher or fellahar, definite plural fellahene or fellahane) a fellah === References === “fellah” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. “fellah”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016