casbah

• cusbah, kasbah, qasbah

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkaz.bɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæz.bɑ/

casbah (plural casbahs)

1. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
2. (synecdochically) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
   • 1982, Joe Strummer, Rock the Casbah:

     The king called up his jet fighters / He said, "You better earn your pay / Drop your bombs between the minarets / Down the casbah way"

3. (slang) A person's house or flat/apartment.
   • 2021, Erin L. Jungdahl, Meet Cute Chihuahua:

     He gave me an earth-shattering kiss and whispered, “Come to my casbah and let me ply you with cupcakes.” […] We made good time getting to his apartment.

• Bachas, Schaab, bachas

• kasbah

From Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).

• IPA^(key): /kas.ba/

• Audio:

  (file)

casbah f (plural casbahs)

1. casbah

• “casbah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.