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fellah
(redirected from fellaheen)

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fel·lah  (fl, f-lä)
n. pl. fel·la·hin or fel·la·heen (fl-hn, f-lä-hn)
A peasant or agricultural laborer in an Arab country, such as Syria or Egypt.
[Arabic fall, from falaa, to cultivate, till; see pl in Semitic roots.]
fellah [ˈfɛlə]
n pl fellahs, fellahin, fellaheen [ˌfɛləˈhiːn]
a peasant in Arab countries
[from Arabic, dialect variant of fallāh, from falaha to cultivate]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fellahfellah - an agricultural laborer in Arab countries
peasant - one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
Translations
fellah
n
→ Fellache m, → Fellachin f
= fellow1 a


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Hoerder's migrant workers are not only the laborers he knows so well, those who went to North America, but also the miners in the coalfields of West Bengal, the some twenty thousand Egyptian fellaheen who dug the Suez canal, and the uncounted Asians, Africans, and Europeans who opened the Panama Canal.
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium by Moch, Leslie Page / Journal of Social History
In imitation of the amirs they set themselves above the people, mistreated their former subordinates, and, like the former multazims, beat or imprisoned their fellaheen for failure to meet the exorbitant taxes they imposed.
The Egyptian and Iranian ulama at the threshold of modern social ... by Moaddel, Mansoor / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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