different between farmer vs fellah

English

Etymology

From Middle English fermor, fermer, fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), partly from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma, see farm; and partly from Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”), from feormian (“to purvey, supply, feed”), equivalent to farm +? -er. More at farm.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??m?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)
• Hyphenation: farm?er

Noun

farmer (plural farmers)

1. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
2. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

   Hyponym: baby farmer

3. (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

4. (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Usage notes

Farmer is probably the last occupational descriptor to have been used as a prefix to a surname in everyday usage: e.g. Farmer Brown. This usage was common until the mid 20th century.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• framer

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?rm?r]
• Hyphenation: far?mer
• Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

From the German Farmer, from the French fermier (“farmer”), from the Old French ferme (“farm, rental”), from the Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tribute, food, feast”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provisions, supplies, feast”). More at farm.

Noun

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. farmer

Declension

See also

• földm?ves
• földm?vel?
• gazda

Etymology 2

Shortening of farmeröltözet or farmernadrág.

Adjective

farmer (not comparable)

1. denim

Declension

Noun

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. blue jeans

Declension

Derived terms

• farmernadrág

Polish

Etymology

From English farmer, from Middle English fermor, fermer, fermour, partly from Old French fermier, from Medieval Latin firm?rius, from Latin firma; and partly from Old English feormere, from feormian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?far.m?r/

Noun

farmer m pers (feminine farmerka)

1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)

   Synonym: rolnik

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) farmerstwo
• (adjective) farmerski

Further reading

• farmer in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• farmer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fârmer/
• Hyphenation: far?mer

Noun

f?rmer m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. farmer

Declension

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