different between agricultural vs fellah

English

Etymology

agriculture +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?ltj????l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt?????l/

Adjective

agricultural (comparative more agricultural, superlative most agricultural)

1. Of or pertaining to agriculture

2. (cricket) As if played with a scythe

Derived terms

• agriculturally

Related terms

Translations

Noun

agricultural (plural agriculturals)

1. A product or commodity from agriculture.
   • 2008, Adam Dunsby, John Eckstein, Jess Gaspar, Commodity Investing

     In what follows we divide commodities into three group—energy, metals, and agriculturals—and use equity indexes that are sensible for each commodity group.

French

Adjective

agricultural (feminine singular agriculturale, masculine plural agriculturaux, feminine plural agriculturales)

1. agricultural

Derived terms

• agriculturalement

Portuguese

Etymology

From agricultura +? -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

agricultural m or f (plural agriculturais, comparable)

1. agricultural (relating to agriculture)

   Synonym: (more common) agrícola

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ???????? (fall??, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ????? (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743.

Noun

fellah (plural fellahs or fellahin or fellaheen)

1. A peasant, farmer or 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 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.

   • 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

   • 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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow.

Noun

fellah (plural fellahs)

1. Alternative spelling of fella

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (fall??), from Aramaic ????? / ????? (pall???, “worker; peasant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fel?la/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fel?làh

Noun

fellah m (invariable)

1. fellah

References

• fellah in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana