Casablanca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Casablanca, a calque of Portuguese Casa Branca, itself calqued from Arabic الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ, “the white home”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæsəˈblæŋkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Casablanca

2. The capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco.
   • 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Major Strasser:

     My dear Mademoiselle, perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca, human life is cheap. Good night, Mademoiselle.

   • 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 December 2024:

     We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”

Derived terms

• Casablancan

Translations

city of Morocco

• Akan: Kasablanka
• Arabic: الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء f (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ), كَازَابْلَانْكَا f (kāzāblānkā) (uncommon)

  Moroccan Arabic: الدار البيضا f

• Belarusian: Касабла́нка f (Kasablánka)
• Bengali: কাসাব্লাঙ্কা (kaśablaṅka), দারুল বয়জা (darul boẏja)
• Bulgarian: Казабла́нка f (Kazablánka)
• Catalan: Casablanca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達爾貝達 / 达尔贝达 (zh) (Dá'ěr-Bèidá) (from Arabic), 卡薩布蘭卡 / 卡萨布兰卡 (zh) (Kǎsàbùlánkǎ) (more common)

• Corsican: Casablanca f
• Czech: Casablanca (cs) f
• Danish: Casablanca
• Dutch: Casablanca n
• Esperanto: Kazablanko
• Estonian: Casablanca (et)
• Farefare: Kasablanka
• Finnish: Casablanca (fi)
• French: Casablanca (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Kasablanka n

• Georgian: კასაბლანკა (ḳasablanḳa)
• German: Casablanca (de) n
• Greek: Καζαμπλάνκα (el) f (Kazamplánka)
• Hebrew: קזבלנקה f
• Hindi: कासाब्लांका f (kāsāblāṅkā)
• Hungarian: Casablanca (hu)
• Italian: Casablanca f
• Japanese: カサブランカ (Kasaburanka)
• Korean: 카사블랑카 (Kasabeullangka)
• Latin: Anfa f
• Latvian: Kasablanka f
• Lithuanian: Kasablanka f
• Macedonian: Казабла́нка f (Kazablánka)
• Marathi: कासाब्लांका n (kāsāblāṅkā)
• Norwegian: Casablanca
• Occitan: Casablanca f
• Persian: کازابلانکا (fa) (kâzâblânkâ), دارالبیضاء
• Polish: Casablanca (pl) f, Casablanka f
• Portuguese: Casablanca f
• Romanian: Casablanca f
• Russian: Касабла́нка (ru) f (Kasablánka)
• Scots: Casablanca
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Казабланка f

  Latin: Casablanca (sh) f

• Slovak: Casablanca f
• Slovene: Casablanca f
• Spanish: Casablanca (es) f
• Swedish: Casablanca
• Thai: กาซาบลังกา (gaa-saa blang-gaa)
• Ukrainian: Касабла́нка f (Kasablánka)
• Urdu: دار البیضاء (dar-ul-baizā)
• Vietnamese: Casablanca

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkasablaŋka]

Proper noun

Casablanca f (relational adjective casablanský)

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)

Declension

Declension of Casablanca (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Casablanca
genitive	Casablancy, Casablanky
dative	Casablance
accusative	Casablancu, Casablanku
vocative	Casablanco, Casablanko
locative	Casablance
instrumental	Casablancou, Casablankou

Further reading

• “Casablanca”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Casablanca”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Zeměpisná jména typu Casablanca a San Francisco”, in Naše řeč [Our Language] (in Czech) (1958)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Casablanca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.za.blɑ̃.ka/

Proper noun

Casablanca f

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)

Derived terms

• Casablancais m, Casablancaise f
• casablancais m, casablancaise f
• Casa (common name)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Casa Branca (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Casablanca, a calque of Portuguese Casa Branca.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.zaˈblɐ̃.kɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.zɐˈblɐ̃.kɐ/ [ka.zɐˈβlɐ̃.kɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.zɐˈblɐ̃.kɐ/ [ka.zɐˈβlɐ̃.kɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.zɐˈblɐ̃.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: Ca‧sa‧blan‧ca

Proper noun

Casablanca f

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)

Spanish

la Plaza de Muhammad V por la noche en Casablanca, Marruecos

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese Casa Branca, itself calqued from Arabic الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ, “the white home”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasaˈblanka/ [ka.saˈβ̞lãŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: Ca‧sa‧blan‧ca

Proper noun

Casablanca f

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)
2. Casablanca (a city in the province of Valparaíso, Chile)
3. (historical) a department of Chile

Related terms

• casablanqués