fellah

IPA: fˈɛɫʌ

A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
Alternative spelling of fella [(informal) Used as a term of address for a male person.]

Examples of "fellah" in Sentences

[6] A fellah is a peasant, one of the labouring class, just above the slave.
The great man remained a big man to the last days of the Ptolemies, and the fellah was always a dwarf. 6
I have described one of the poorest of the "fellah" villages, but the traveller is often more luxuriously housed.
"All right sir, pass in sir, excuse me sir," says my very polite guard, and a "fellah" that "knows the ropes," is admitted.
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.
"Wal, Tom he lay there a waitin '; and he waited and waited and waited, till he' most got asleep; but finally he heard a stirrin 'in the box, as if the fellah was a gettin' up.
Some kind of agent character Grosvenor muses on 'fellah' cultures that become too conservative and resistant and violent against change, and then uses superpowers to take over the ship.