Fella vs Fellah - What's the difference?
fella | fellah |
A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
* 1920', (Archibald Sayce), “” in ''Folk-Lore'' ' 31 p. 176
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Ulysses :
* 1957 , (Lawrence Durrell), Justine :
* 1955 , (Paul Bowles), The Spider's House :
*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 .
Fellah is a alternative form of fella.
As nouns the difference between fella and fellah
is that fella is eye dialect of lang=en while fellah is a peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.fella
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Alternative forms
* * fellerDescendants
*Bislama: -fala, -pela *Pijin: -fala *Tok Pisin: -pela, -plafellah
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ‘tiller of the soil’.Noun
- Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fella? 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.
- It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
- 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.
- 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.