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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkaz.bɑː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkæz.bɑ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-casbah.wav [Southern-England] Forms: casbahs [plural], cusbah [alternative], kasbah [alternative], qasbah [alternative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba). Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:bor|ar:قَصَبَة|text=+|tree=1}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Arabic", "term" : "قَصَبَة", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ar" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "casbah", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="casbah"> Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba). Head templates: {{en-noun}} casbah (plural casbahs)
  1. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
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  2. (synecdochic) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
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  3. (slang) A person's house or flat/apartment. Tags: slang
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (the fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East): قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) [feminine] (Arabic), касаба́ (kasabá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), kasbaho (Esperanto), citadelo (Esperanto), kasba (Finnish), casbah [feminine] (French), kasbah [feminine] (French), kaszba (Hungarian), قَصَبِه (ġasabe) (Iranian Persian), casba [feminine] (Italian), カスバ (kasuba) (Japanese), kasbah (Norwegian Bokmål), قصبه (kasaba) (Ottoman Turkish), قَصَبَه (qasaba) (Persian), kazba (Polish), casbá [feminine] (Portuguese), ка́сба (kásba) [feminine] (Russian), қасаба (qasaba) (Tajik), kasaba (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'the fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East': 54 46 0

Noun [French]

IPA: /kaz.ba/, /kas.ba/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-casbah.wav [France, Lyon], LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-casbah.wav [France, Vosges] Forms: casbahs [plural], kasbah [alternative]
Etymology: From Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba). Etymology templates: {{uder|fr|ar|قَصَبَة}} Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} casbah f (plural casbahs)
  1. casbah Tags: feminine

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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