Fellah

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fellah \Fel"lah\, n.; pl. Ar. {Fellahin}, E. {Fellahs}. [Ar.]
     A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians,
     Syrians, etc. --W. M. Thomson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  fellah
       n : an agricultural laborer in Arab countries
       [also: {fellahin} (pl), {fellaheen} (pl)]