alcassaba
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic القصبة (al-qasába), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba); cognate to English casbah and Spanish alcazaba.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Central) [əl.kəˈsa.βə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əl.kəˈsa.bə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [al.kaˈsa.ba]
Noun[edit]
alcassaba f (plural alcassabes)
- a fortress inside a walled city
- (by synecdoche) the medina, the older part of a city in North Africa
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “alcassaba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024