alcassaba

Catalan

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic القصبة (al-qasába), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba); cognate to English casbah and Spanish alcazaba.

Pronunciation

Noun

alcassaba f (plural alcassabes)

  1. a fortress inside a walled city
  2. (synecdochically) the medina, the older part of a city in North Africa

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