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  • noun Plural form of fellah.

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Examples

  • The fellahin were the real Egyptians: Arabic-speaking peasants, traditional farmers whose precarious methods—the waterwheel powered by a cow or donkey, irrigation through the annual Nile flood—had changed little since pharaonic times.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • The fellahin were the real Egyptians: Arabic-speaking peasants, traditional farmers whose precarious methods—the waterwheel powered by a cow or donkey, irrigation through the annual Nile flood—had changed little since pharaonic times.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • The fellahin were the real Egyptians: Arabic-speaking peasants, traditional farmers whose precarious methods—the waterwheel powered by a cow or donkey, irrigation through the annual Nile flood—had changed little since pharaonic times.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • The Perizzites or "fellahin" industriously tilled the fields, and high-walled cities stood on the mountain as well as on the plain.

    Patriarchal Palestine 1889

  • For example, Amelia sympathetically contrasts the stifled lives of women in middle class harems with that of the poor farm workers, the wives of the fellahin.

    Terry Kelhawk: Skirts on Camels: Early Women Travel Writers Terry Kelhawk 2010

  • For example, Amelia sympathetically contrasts the stifled lives of women in middle class harems with that of the poor farm workers, the wives of the fellahin.

    Terry Kelhawk: Skirts on Camels: Early Women Travel Writers Terry Kelhawk 2010

  • This has to be noted and has to be tackled when the new Egypt is emerging, that the labor force needs reconsideration of their position, of their salaries, of their rights, and also the fellahin in the villages, the students, the young people, the women, and so on.

    Democracy Now!: Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on His Likely Presidential Candidacy (VIDEO) Democracy Now! 2011

  • It seemed to us that the wives of the fellahin were in truth the happiest women in Egypt.

    Terry Kelhawk: Skirts on Camels: Early Women Travel Writers Terry Kelhawk 2010

  • For example, Amelia sympathetically contrasts the stifled lives of women in middle class harems with that of the poor farm workers, the wives of the fellahin.

    Terry Kelhawk: Skirts on Camels: Early Women Travel Writers Terry Kelhawk 2010

  • For example, Amelia sympathetically contrasts the stifled lives of women in middle class harems with that of the poor farm workers, the wives of the fellahin.

    Terry Kelhawk: Skirts on Camels: Early Women Travel Writers Terry Kelhawk 2010

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