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Fellah

noun

(pl. Ar. fellahin, E. fellahs)

An agricultural laborer in Arab countries.

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"Fellah" Quotes from Famous Books

... true that civilization or cultivation has bred out of the world the liking for a story. In this the most highly educated Londoner and the Egyptian fellah meet on common human ground. The passion for a story has no more died out than curiosity, or than the passion of love. The truth is not that stories are not demanded, but that the born raconteur and story-teller is ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... fellah, he who tills the soil, who cultivates by irrigation and gathers the rich crops of the valley, is of a fine and industrious race, well-built, broad-chested, and always of lithe frame, altogether a fine looking and vigorous figure. He has a manly, oval face, a broad brow, and a bronzed ...

— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... province of the Roman Empire," said Father Lavelle, but yesterday, in his "Irish Landlord," "ever presented half the wretchedness of Ireland. At this day, the mutilated Fellah of Egypt, the savage Hottentot and New-Hollander, the live chattel of Cuba, enjoy a paradise in comparison with the Irish peasant, that is to say, with the bulk of ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

Words linked to "Fellah" : peasant