A fellagha or fellaga is a combatant Tunisia N or Algérie N entered clandestinity during the fights for the Indépendance of their respective country then under French domination.

Etymology

The term fellagha (rear RTL فلاقة), plural of fellag (rear RTL فلاق), means in Arab “highwaymen” or “nobody living clandestinely”.

Although the word has a direction first pejorative in Arabic, it becomes during the synonymous Guerre of Algeria protesters or resistant for the Arab while the “fellouze” is the equivalent of rebel, terrorist or assassin for the French. The word will remain in the French vocabulary to designate in a scornful way the Arabs.

Fellagha famous

• Lazhar Chraïti
• Mosbah Jarbou

See too

• Guerre of Algeria
• Front of national release (FLN)
• Armée with national release (ALN)
• I was fellagha, French officer and deserter
• Guérilla
• Harki, Moghazni
• Article fellagha in the TLFi

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