- in N Africa, a fortress
- the old, crowded quarter of a N African city
Origin of casbah
French from Arabic dialect, dialectal qa?ba, for qa?aba, citadelcasbah
Casbah
the crowded quarter of Algiers, Algeria
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Casbah
also Kas·bah
noun
- A castle or palace in northern Africa.
- often casbah The older section of a city in northern Africa or the Middle East.
Origin of Casbah
French from Arabic dialectal qa&slowdot;ba from Arabic qa&slowdot;aba to cut up q&slowdot;bTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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