casbah
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈkaz.bɑː/
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/ˈkaz.bɑː/ · /ˈkæz.bɑ/
Definition of casbah
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
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noun
- The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
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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"”
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(slang)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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
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