alcassaba

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [əl.kəˈsa.βə]

IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əl.kəˈsa.bə]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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, 2024

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