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"