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Definition: Fellah |
FellahNoun1. An agricultural laborer in Arab countries. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fellah" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Etymology: Fellah \Fel"lah\, noun; plural Ar. Fellahin, English Fellahs. [from Arabic expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fellah |
| English words defined with "fellah": Fellahin, Fellahs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fellah" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (fellah), Turkish (arab villager, fellah, fellaheen). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. Based on the novel 'Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom' by Peter George.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ibn el fellah (1948) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | That's it, young fellah, exactly! -- a kind of a thortful, sad look, as if money ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fellah" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fellah" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fellah": fellah-i-puts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fellah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φελλάχησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fellah, egyiptomi paraszt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellahfay felah, ţãran egiptean. (various references) fellaheen. (various references) ชาวนาอาหรับ. (various references) fellah (arab villager, fellaheen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fellah": fellaheen, fellahin, fellahs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fellah" (pronounced 'Fel"lah'): Allah, Bablah, Bismillah, Delilah, Kholah, Kiblah, Mollah, Moplah, mullah, Nullah, pallah, Selah, Wallah, Yalah, Zillah. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-l-l" | |
-1 letter: fella. | |
-2 letters: alef, fall, feal, fell, flea, hale, half, hall, heal, hell, leaf, leal. | |
-3 letters: ale, all, elf, ell, feh, hae, lea. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, al, ef, eh, el, fa, ha, he, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-l-l" | |
+1 letter: fellahs. | |
+2 letters: fellahin, firehall, halflife, selfheal. | |
+3 letters: fellaheen, firehalls, flushable, halflives, hatefully, healthful, selfheals. | |
+4 letters: chapfallen, chopfallen, fallfishes, satchelful, shamefully. | |
+5 letters: changefully, faithlessly, healthfully, leatherleaf, mantelshelf, satchelfuls, satchelsful, thankfuller, unhealthful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 6C 6C 61 68 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-.. .-.. .- .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100001 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e l l a h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 006C 006C 0061 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407178786774 |
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