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