alcassaba
Catalan
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic القصبة, from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba); cognate to English casbah and Spanish alcazaba.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /əl.kəˈsa.bə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /al.kaˈsa.ba/
Noun
alcassaba f (plural alcassabes)
- A fortress inside a walled city.
- (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa.
Related terms
- alcàsser
Further reading
- “alcassaba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023