different between laborer vs fellah

English

Alternative forms

• labourer

Etymology

labor +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?le?.b?.?/

Noun

laborer (plural laborers)

1. (American spelling) One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

Related terms

• laborist

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lab?r?re, present active infinitive of lab?r?.

Verb

laborer

1. to work; to labor

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. This verb has a stressed present stem labeur distinct from the unstressed stem labor. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• labour

Descendants

• Middle French: labourer
  • French: labourer
• Norman: labouother
• ? Middle English: labouren
  • English: labour, labor
  • Scots: laubour

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