費拉

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (費拉)		費	拉
simp. (费拉)		费	拉

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fellache (“peasant in the Middle East and North Africa”) in Oswald Spengler’s works. The derived slang was coined by supporters of the Chinese writer and Internet celebrity Liu Zhongjing, who used this word to describe a deculturalized and declined state of a people.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèilā

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄌㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèilā
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄌㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèila
    • Wade–Giles: fei⁴-la¹
    • Yale: fèi-lā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feylha
    • Palladius: фэйла (fɛjla)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹ lä⁵⁵/

Noun

費拉

1. (rare) fellah

Adjective

費拉

1. (slang, derogatory) obedient and cowardly