Noun

1. A peasant in an Arabic country.
   • 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.

   • 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.