Meaning & use
Fellahin
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Peasant farmers or agricultural laborers, especially in Egypt and other parts of the Arab world.
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The fellahin worked the fields along the Nile much as their ancestors had for generations.
Historians studied the daily lives of the fellahin to understand rural Egyptian society.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Arabic 'fallahin', the plural of 'fellah'; it appears in English mainly in historical, anthropological, or literary writing.
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peasantsfarmworkers
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