casbah
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
Noun[edit]
casbah (plural casbahs)
- The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
- (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
Translations[edit]
the fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
casbah f (plural casbahs)
Further reading[edit]
- “casbah” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).