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fellah noun [ ˈfɛlə ]

• an Egyptian peasant.
Origin: from Arabic fallāḥ ‘tiller of the soil’, from falaḥa ‘till the soil’.

fella noun

• non-standard spelling of fellow, used in representing speech in various dialects.
• "you can't blame the wee fella"
• a person's boyfriend or lover.
• "she took a fancy to her best friend's fella"


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