fellahn.

Brit.

/fɛˈlɑː/, U.S.

/fɛˈlɑ/

Inflections: Plural fellahin Brit.

/ˌfɛləˈhiːn/, U.S.

/ˌfɛləˈhin/, fellahs.

Forms: 1700s filaw, 1700s– fellah, 1800s– fallaheen (plural), 1800s– fellaheen (plural), 1800s– fellahin (plural), 1900s– fallah.

Origin: A borrowing from Arabic. Etymons: Arabic fallāḥ, fellāḥ.

Etymology: < Arabic fallāḥ (also transliterated fellāḥ) peasant, (in extended use) rustic, yokel < falaḥa to till the soil, probably < Aramaic palaḥa to work, labour, to plough (land).Compare Aramaic pallāḥ workman, farmer. Compare French fellah (1661; rare before the late 18th cent.), Italian fellah (a1652). In plural forms in -in, -een after the Arabic plural form fellāḥīn.

In Arabic-speaking countries, esp. Egypt: an agricultural labourer, a peasant. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > foreign

muzhik1587

boor1623

raiyat1625

fellah1743

paisanoa1836

campesino1937

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > of a specific country > Arabic

fellah1743

1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. 177 The Mahometan inhabitants of Egypt are either original natives, in the villages call'd Filaws, or they are of the Arab race.

1783 S. Lusignan Hist. Revolt Ali Bey 15 The most numerous class of them are the Fellahs, or Arabs.

1802 Ann. Reg. 742 The Fellahs..are the farmers and husbandmen of the country.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxii. 714 Farther on, the brown Fellaheen..are cutting clover.

1912 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 188 Egypt is not to be ranked with Syria for a moment: you have only to think of fellahin—and ours are Bedu.

1947 S. Bellow Victim i. 3 The people [of New York], thronging the streets, barbaric fellahin among the stupendous monuments of their mystery.

1982 G. Baer Fellah & Townsman in Middle East iv. ii. 294 Like their Egyptian contemporaries, Syrian fellahs were neither led by wealthy peasants, nor by rural notables.

2016 Times 26 Feb. 51/2 His family were fellahin and, like Nasser, he preserved an instinctive sympathy for the peasant society from which he sprang.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fellah
释义	fellahn. Brit. /fɛˈlɑː/, U.S. /fɛˈlɑ/ Inflections: Plural fellahin Brit. /ˌfɛləˈhiːn/, U.S. /ˌfɛləˈhin/, fellahs. Forms: 1700s filaw, 1700s– fellah, 1800s– fallaheen (plural), 1800s– fellaheen (plural), 1800s– fellahin (plural), 1900s– fallah. Origin: A borrowing from Arabic. Etymons: Arabic fallāḥ, fellāḥ. Etymology: < Arabic fallāḥ (also transliterated fellāḥ) peasant, (in extended use) rustic, yokel < falaḥa to till the soil, probably < Aramaic palaḥa to work, labour, to plough (land).Compare Aramaic pallāḥ workman, farmer. Compare French fellah (1661; rare before the late 18th cent.), Italian fellah (a1652). In plural forms in -in, -een after the Arabic plural form fellāḥīn. In Arabic-speaking countries, esp. Egypt: an agricultural labourer, a peasant. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > foreign muzhik1587 boor1623 raiyat1625 fellah1743 paisanoa1836 campesino1937 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > of a specific country > Arabic fellah1743 1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. 177 The Mahometan inhabitants of Egypt are either original natives, in the villages call'd Filaws, or they are of the Arab race. 1783 S. Lusignan Hist. Revolt Ali Bey 15 The most numerous class of them are the Fellahs, or Arabs. 1802 Ann. Reg. 742 The Fellahs..are the farmers and husbandmen of the country. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxii. 714 Farther on, the brown Fellaheen..are cutting clover. 1912 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 188 Egypt is not to be ranked with Syria for a moment: you have only to think of fellahin—and ours are Bedu. 1947 S. Bellow Victim i. 3 The people [of New York], thronging the streets, barbaric fellahin among the stupendous monuments of their mystery. 1982 G. Baer Fellah & Townsman in Middle East iv. ii. 294 Like their Egyptian contemporaries, Syrian fellahs were neither led by wealthy peasants, nor by rural notables. 2016 Times 26 Feb. 51/2 His family were fellahin and, like Nasser, he preserved an instinctive sympathy for the peasant society from which he sprang. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1743
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