Fellah

//ˈfɛlə//

Synonyms for "fellah" (5 found)

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Translations

14 translations across 8 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

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  • 費拉 /费拉 noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

French

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  • fellah noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

German

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  • Fellache noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)
  • Fellachin noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

Italian

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  • fellah noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

Macedonian

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  • фе́лах noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

Polish

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  • fellach noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

Russian

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  • феллах noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

Volapük

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  • fälag noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)
  • fälagef noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)
  • hifälag noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)
  • hifälagef noun (peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer)

Sample sentences

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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.

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It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.

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The real problem of the Arabian population in Palestine is how to get rid of the economic domination and control by approximately 100 families of effendi who now own the land, keeping the fellaheen in obscurity and ignorance and subjecting them to merciless exploitation.

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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

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