casbah
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casbah
- /ˈkaz.bɑː/ UK
- /ˈkæz.bɑ/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
noun casbahs · cusbah · kasbah · qasbah
- The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
- The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. The king called up his jet fighters / He said, "You better earn your pay / Drop your bombs between the minarets / Down the casbah way"
- A person's house or flat/apartment. He gave me an earth-shattering kiss and whispered, “Come to my casbah and let me ply you with cupcakes.” […] We made good time getting to his apartment.
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Talk about this word "casbah." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/casbah. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. casbah. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/casbah "casbah." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/casbah.
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@misc{casbah_2026,
title = {casbah},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/casbah},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
