Plural of fellah; peasants or agricultural laborers in Egypt and other Arab countries.
From Arabic 'fellaḥīn,' the plural of 'fellah' meaning peasant or farmer. The word refers to the rural working class in Middle Eastern agricultural societies.
The felaheen have been the backbone of Egyptian civilization for millennia—the ancient pharaohs depended on fellahin labor to build pyramids and manage the Nile's floods, a pattern that continued into modern times!
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