Noun:

मिस्त्री किसान,

fellahin's Usage Examples:

The sirdar made an attempt to raise a battaliQn of Albanians, but the few men obtained mutinied when ordered to proceed to the Sudan, and it was deemed advisable, after the ringleaders had been executed, to abandon the idea, and rely on blacks to stiffen the fellahin.

Ten thousand fellahin, collected in March 1883, mainly from Arabis former forces, set out from Duem, 100 m.

The regeneration of the fellahin army dates from that epidemic.

This is a marked indication of the increasing prosperity of the fellahin.

In January 1883, Major-General Sir Evelyn Wood, VC., was given 200,000, and directed to spend it in raising a fellahin force of 6ooo men for the defence of Egypt.

With the accession of Ismail (q.v.) there followed a period of wild extravagance and reckless borrowing accompanied by the extortion of every piastre possible from the fellahin.

Vegetables and Fruit.Vcgetables grow readily, and their cultivation is an important part of the work of the fellahin.

Camp was formed at Omdurman and a new force of some 8000 fighting men collected - mostly recruited from the fellahin of Arabi's disbanded troops, sent in chains from Egypt.

The new Arab invaders who soon pressed forward into their seats found the remnants of the Nabataeans transformed into fellahin, and speaking Aramaic like their neighbours.

The population is generally divisible into I The fellahin or peasantry and the native townsmen.