alcazaba

Spanish

FWOTD – 23 August 2014

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة‎ (qaṣaba), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate with English casbah.

alcazaba f (plural alcazabas)

a Moorish fortress within or beside a walled city
- 2012, Isabel San Sebastián,, Un Reino lejano, Random House Mondadori, page 210:
  no se transforma una alcazaba en castillo ni una mezquita en catedral para luego dejarla en manos del pueblo que crucificó a Cristo…
  one doesn’t turn a Moorish fortress into a castle nor a mosque into a cathedral before it is soon left in the hands of the people that crucified Christ…

单词	alcazaba
释义	alcazaba Spanish FWOTD – 23 August 2014 Etymology Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة‎ (qaṣaba), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate with English casbah. Pronunciation IPA^(key): (Spain) /alkaˈθaba/ [al.kaˈθa.β̞a] IPA^(key): (Latin America) /alkaˈsaba/ [al.kaˈsa.β̞a] Rhymes: -aba Syllabification: al‧ca‧za‧ba Noun alcazaba f (plural alcazabas) a Moorish fortress within or beside a walled city 2012, Isabel San Sebastián,, Un Reino lejano, Random House Mondadori, page 210: no se transforma una alcazaba en castillo ni una mezquita en catedral para luego dejarla en manos del pueblo que crucificó a Cristo… one doesn’t turn a Moorish fortress into a castle nor a mosque into a cathedral before it is soon left in the hands of the people that crucified Christ… Related terms alcázar Further reading “alcazaba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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