fellah

fellah englannista suomeksi

1. fellah

0. Substantiivi

fellah englanniksi

1. A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the East and Africa.

2. 1920, (w), “31/Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore|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.

3. (quote-text)

4. 1929-1930, (w), ''Fungi from Yuggoth''

And at the last from inner Egypt came // The strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1977|author=Alistair Horne|title=A Savage War of Peace|location=New York|publisher=Review Books|year_published=2006|page=39

6. (alt sp)

7. (l) (peasant or farmer)

8. peasant, farmer, fellah

9. (l)

10. a (l)