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Is fellah a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fellah is a Scrabble US word. The word fellah is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is fellah a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fellah is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

F4E1L1L1A1H4

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Yes. The word fellah is a Words With Friends word. The word fellah is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

FELLAH,

5-letter words (1 found)

FELLA,

4-letter words (12 found)

ALEF,FALL,FEAL,FELL,FLEA,HALE,HALF,HALL,HEAL,HELL,LEAF,LEAL,

3-letter words (11 found)

ALE,ALF,ALL,ELF,ELL,FAE,FAH,FEH,HAE,LAH,LEA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AH,AL,EA,EF,EH,EL,FA,FE,HA,HE,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 38 words from fellah according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fellah

fellah

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛlə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

Etymology 1

From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“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 fellaḥ 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
Translations

Etymology 2

Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow.

Noun

fellah (plural fellahs)

  1. Alternative spelling of fella

French

Noun

fellah m (plural fellahs)

  1. fellah (peasant or farmer)

Further reading

  • “fellah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Noun

fellah (first-person possessive fellahku, second-person possessive fellahmu, third-person possessive fellahnya)

  1. peasant, farmer, fellah

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ), from Aramaic פלחא / ܦܠܚܐ (pallāḥā, “worker; peasant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /felˈla/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: fel‧làh

Noun

fellah m (invariable)

  1. fellah

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛl.lɑ/

Noun

fellah m (definite singular fellahen, indefinite plural fellaher, definite plural fellahene)

  1. a fellah

References

  • “fellah” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “fellah” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛl.lɑ/

Noun

fellah m (definite singular fellahen, indefinite plural fellaher or fellahar, definite plural fellahene or fellahane)

  1. a fellah

References

  • “fellah” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “fellah”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

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