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Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic القصبة (al-qasába), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba); cognate to English casbah and Spanish alcazaba.
Pronunciation
Noun
alcassaba f (plural alcassabes)
- a fortress inside a walled city
- (by synecdoche) the medina, the older part of a city in North Africa
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