Definition of "fellah" [‖Fel•lah]

• A peasant or agricultural laborer in an Arab country, such as Syria or Egypt. (noun)

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• "Though I am in truth a Turk, and those who serve and rob me here are Turks, yet the fellah is the same as he was five thousand years ago."
• "The great man remained a big man to the last days of the Ptolemies, and the fellah was always a dwarf. 6"
• "[6] A fellah is a peasant, one of the labouring class, just above the slave."