فلاح

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Arabic

فَلَّاح

Etymology

From the root ف ل ح (f-l-ḥ). The sense of "farmer" is assumed to be borrowed from Aramaic פלחא / ܦܠܚܐ (pallāḥā, “worker; peasant”), owing to the dominant economy of Arabic speakers being nomadic when in contrast Aramaic speakers practised agriculture. This assumed, فَلَحَ (falaḥa, “to furrow, to plow; to slit, to cleave”) would be denominal.

Pronunciation

Noun

فَلَّاح • (fallāḥ) m (plural فَلَّاحُون (fallāḥūn), feminine فَلَّاحَة (fallāḥa))

  1. (countable) a farmer, a peasant
    Synonyms: مُزَارِع (muzāriʕ, “a farmer”), زَرَّاع (zarrāʕ, “planter, sower”), حَرَّاث (ḥarrāṯ, “tiller, plower, cultivator”), (archaic) أَكَّار (ʔakkār, “furrower”), (obsolete) كَافِر (kāfir, “a husbandman, a farmer, a peasant”)
    هٰؤُلَاءِ الْفَلَّاحُونَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْقَرْيَةِ الْمِصْرِيَّةِ الْكَبِيرَةِ.
    hāʔulāʔi al-fallāḥūna min tilka l-qaryati l-miṣriyyati l-kabīrati.
    These farmers are from that big Egyptian village.

Declension

Declension of noun فَلَّاح (fallāḥ)
Singular Masculine Feminine
basic singular triptote singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَلَّاح
fallāḥ 		الْفَلَّاح
al-fallāḥ 		فَلَّاح
fallāḥ 		فَلَّاحَة
fallāḥa 		الْفَلَّاحَة
al-fallāḥa 		فَلَّاحَة
fallāḥat
Nominative فَلَّاحٌ
fallāḥun 		الْفَلَّاحُ
al-fallāḥu 		فَلَّاحُ
fallāḥu 		فَلَّاحَةٌ
fallāḥatun 		الْفَلَّاحَةُ
al-fallāḥatu 		فَلَّاحَةُ
fallāḥatu
Accusative فَلَّاحًا
fallāḥan 		الْفَلَّاحَ
al-fallāḥa 		فَلَّاحَ
fallāḥa 		فَلَّاحَةً
fallāḥatan 		الْفَلَّاحَةَ
al-fallāḥata 		فَلَّاحَةَ
fallāḥata
Genitive فَلَّاحٍ
fallāḥin 		الْفَلَّاحِ
al-fallāḥi 		فَلَّاحِ
fallāḥi 		فَلَّاحَةٍ
fallāḥatin 		الْفَلَّاحَةِ
al-fallāḥati 		فَلَّاحَةِ
fallāḥati
Dual Masculine Feminine
Indefinite Definite Construct Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَلَّاحَيْن
fallāḥayn 		الْفَلَّاحَيْن
al-fallāḥayn 		فَلَّاحَيْ
fallāḥay 		فَلَّاحَتَيْن
fallāḥatayn 		الْفَلَّاحَتَيْن
al-fallāḥatayn 		فَلَّاحَتَيْ
fallāḥatay
Nominative فَلَّاحَانِ
fallāḥāni 		الْفَلَّاحَانِ
al-fallāḥāni 		فَلَّاحَا
fallāḥā 		فَلَّاحَتَانِ
fallāḥatāni 		الْفَلَّاحَتَانِ
al-fallāḥatāni 		فَلَّاحَتَا
fallāḥatā
Accusative فَلَّاحَيْنِ
fallāḥayni 		الْفَلَّاحَيْنِ
al-fallāḥayni 		فَلَّاحَيْ
fallāḥay 		فَلَّاحَتَيْنِ
fallāḥatayni 		الْفَلَّاحَتَيْنِ
al-fallāḥatayni 		فَلَّاحَتَيْ
fallāḥatay
Genitive فَلَّاحَيْنِ
fallāḥayni 		الْفَلَّاحَيْنِ
al-fallāḥayni 		فَلَّاحَيْ
fallāḥay 		فَلَّاحَتَيْنِ
fallāḥatayni 		الْفَلَّاحَتَيْنِ
al-fallāḥatayni 		فَلَّاحَتَيْ
fallāḥatay
Plural Masculine Feminine
sound masculine plural sound feminine plural
Indefinite Definite Construct Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَلَّاحِين
fallāḥīn 		الْفَلَّاحِين
al-fallāḥīn 		فَلَّاحِي
fallāḥī 		فَلَّاحَات
fallāḥāt 		الْفَلَّاحَات
al-fallāḥāt 		فَلَّاحَات
fallāḥāt
Nominative فَلَّاحُونَ
fallāḥūna 		الْفَلَّاحُونَ
al-fallāḥūna 		فَلَّاحُو
fallāḥū 		فَلَّاحَاتٌ
fallāḥātun 		الْفَلَّاحَاتُ
al-fallāḥātu 		فَلَّاحَاتُ
fallāḥātu
Accusative فَلَّاحِينَ
fallāḥīna 		الْفَلَّاحِينَ
al-fallāḥīna 		فَلَّاحِي
fallāḥī 		فَلَّاحَاتٍ
fallāḥātin 		الْفَلَّاحَاتِ
al-fallāḥāti 		فَلَّاحَاتِ
fallāḥāti
Genitive فَلَّاحِينَ
fallāḥīna 		الْفَلَّاحِينَ
al-fallāḥīna 		فَلَّاحِي
fallāḥī 		فَلَّاحَاتٍ
fallāḥātin 		الْفَلَّاحَاتِ
al-fallāḥāti 		فَلَّاحَاتِ
fallāḥāti

Descendants

Noun

فَلَاح • (falāḥ) m

  1. (uncountable) success
    Antonym: خَيْبَة (ḵayba)

Declension

Declension of noun فَلَاح (falāḥ)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَلَاح
falāḥ 		الْفَلَاح
al-falāḥ 		فَلَاح
falāḥ
Nominative فَلَاحٌ
falāḥun 		الْفَلَاحُ
al-falāḥu 		فَلَاحُ
falāḥu
Accusative فَلَاحًا
falāḥan 		الْفَلَاحَ
al-falāḥa 		فَلَاحَ
falāḥa
Genitive فَلَاحٍ
falāḥin 		الْفَلَاحِ
al-falāḥi 		فَلَاحِ
falāḥi

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 126
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فلاح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2439
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “فلح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 850
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “663. FILEAH”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 122

Egyptian Arabic

Root
ف ل ح
1 term

Noun

فلاح • (fallāḥ) m (plural فلّاحين, feminine فلّاحة)

  1. (countable) a farmer
    1. (countable, Cairene, derogatory, offensive, slang) a rustic, a peasant, a provincial
    2. (countable, Cairene, derogatory or humorous, slang) an ignorant, a peasant

Usage notes

The word is typically used by Egyptian urbanites to refer to migrants who have come from the countryside to the cities (such as Cairo and Alexandria), particularly those who are seen as exhibiting or normalizing socially disapproved-of behavior. However, it has also come to be used jocularly to signify "ignorance" in general, especially that which is envisioned as stereotypically rustic.

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