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Gagauz
Etymology
From Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
Noun
kasaba
- city, town
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قصبه (kasaba), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kasǎba/
- Hyphenation: ka‧sa‧ba
Noun
kasàba f (Cyrillic spelling каса̀ба)
- (regional) town
1942-1945, Ivo Andrić, chapter 1, in Na Drini Ćuprija:Kasaba je živele od mosta i rasla iz njega kao iz svoga neuništivog korena.- The town owned its existence to the bridge and grew out of it as if from an imperishable root.
- (regional) Podunk
Declension
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From Spanish cazabe, from Taíno .
Noun
kasaba
- cassava
1975, “Basya Adyuku koni”, in Ursy M. Lichtveld, Jan Voorhoeve, editors, Creole drum. An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 86:A krabdagu taki: - Angri e kiri mi ba. A di mi si yu e nyan, ne mi kon.
Adyuku taki: - We san mi e nyan, mi no sabi efu yu sa nyan en. Na kasaba dokun mi tyari. Efu yu sa nyan en, dan mi sa gi yu.- The crab-eating raccoon said: 'I'm starving, brother. When I saw that you're eating, I came over immediately.
Adyuku said: 'I say, I don't know whether you'll want to eat what I'm eating. I brought cassava duckanoo. If you'll eat it, then I'll give it to you.
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قصبه, from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
Pronunciation
Noun
kasaba (definite accusative kasabayı, plural kasabalar)
- casbah
- town
Declension