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#*: 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. |
#*: 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. |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=1922|author={{w|James Joyce}}|title=Ulysses|passage=It has the prophetic vision. ''Fuit Ilium!'' The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are '''fellaheen''' today.}} |
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1922|author={{w|James Joyce}}|title=Ulysses|passage=It has the prophetic vision. ''Fuit Ilium!'' The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are '''fellaheen''' today.}} |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=1957|author={{w|Lawrence Durrell}}|title=Justine|passage=Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced '''''fellah''''' girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.}} |
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1957|author={{w|Lawrence Durrell}}|title=Justine|passage=Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced '''''fellah''''' girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.}} |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=1955|author={{w|Paul Bowles}}|title=The Spider's House|passage=All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a '''fellah''' ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.}} |
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1955|author={{w|Paul Bowles}}|title=The Spider's House|passage=All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a '''fellah''' ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.}} |
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#* '''1977''', {{w|Alistair Horne}}, ''A Savage War of Peace'', New York Review Books 2006, p. 39: |
#* '''1977''', {{w|Alistair Horne}}, ''A Savage War of Peace'', New York Review Books 2006, p. 39: |
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#*: It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the '''''fellahs'''''. |
#*: It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the '''''fellahs'''''. |
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=====Translations===== |
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Revision as of 13:23, 6 December 2020
Englisch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743.
Nomen
fellah (plural fellahs or fellahin or fellaheen)
- A peasant, farmer oder agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
- 1920, Archibald Sayce, “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore” in Folk-Lore 31 p. 176
- 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
- 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
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
- Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced fellah girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.
- 1955, Paul Bowles, The Spider's House:
- All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a fellah ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 39:
- It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the fellahs.
- 1920, Archibald Sayce, “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore” in Folk-Lore 31 p. 176
Translations
peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer
Etymology 2
Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow.
Nomen
fellah (plural fellahs)
- Alternative spelling of fella
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ), from Aramaic פלחא / ܦܠܚܐ (pallāḥā, “worker; peasant”)
Pronunciation
Nomen
fellah m (uncountable)
References
- fellah in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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