Definition of "fellah" in English

noun

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

   • 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.
   • 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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of fella.