alcazaba

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Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic القصبة (al-qaṣába(t)), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba); cognate to English casbah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /alkaˈθaba/ [al.kaˈθa.β̞a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /alkaˈsaba/ [al.kaˈsa.β̞a]

Noun

alcazaba f (plural alcazabas)

  1. a Moorish fortress within or beside a walled city
    • 2012, Isabel San Sebastián,, Un Reino lejano, Random House Mondadori, page 210:
      «no se transforma una alcazaba en castillo ni una mezquita en catedral para luego dejarla en manos del pueblo que crucificó a Cristo…»
      «one doesn’t turn a Moorish fortress into a castle nor a mosque into a cathedral before it is soon left in the hands of the people that crucified Christ…»

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