"casbah" meaning in All languages combined

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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]
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|قَصَبَة}} Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba), {{root|en|ar|ق ص ب}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} casbah (plural casbahs)
  1. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
    Sense id: en-casbah-en-noun-DCEToJSq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 46 2
  2. (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. Tags: synecdoche
    Sense id: en-casbah-en-noun-oN47I4MF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 46 2
  3. (slang) A person's house or flat/apartment. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-casbah-en-noun-CHI72sqN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cusbah, kasbah, qasbah Translations (the fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East): قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) [feminine] (Arabic), касаба́ (kasabá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), kasba (Finnish), casbah [feminine] (French), kasbah [feminine] (French), قَصَبِه (ğasabe) (Iranian Persian), カスバ (kasuba) (Japanese), kasbah (Norwegian Bokmål), قصبه (kasaba) (Ottoman Turkish), قَصَبَه (qasaba) (Persian), 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': 55 45 0

Noun [French]

IPA: /kas.ba/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-casbah.wav Forms: casbahs [plural]
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 Synonyms: kasbah
    Sense id: en-casbah-fr-noun-mFxYhLJ~ Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French undefined derivations

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.