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  Kasbah

  noun

  the older, Arab quarter of a North African city, especially Algiers.
• kasbah
  kasbah

  noun

  the citadel of any of various North African cities

Kasbah

American  

[kaz-buh, -bah, kahz-] / ˈkæz bə, -bɑ, ˈkɑz- /

Or Casbah

noun

1. the older, Arab quarter of a North African city, especially Algiers.

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kasbah British  

/ ˈkæzbɑː /

noun

1. the citadel of any of various North African cities

2. the quarter in which a kasbah is located Compare medina

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Etymology

Origin of Kasbah

First recorded in 1730–40; from Arabic qaṣabah “citadel, fortress”

Example Sentences

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In the city’s Kasbah, meanwhile, we encountered stomach-churning sights of another sort.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

It’s hard to walk or drive down Kasbah Drive or Minzah Way without being waved at, repeatedly.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017

Hussainzada was already the subject of a 2009 documentary, also titled Afghan Star, but in Rock the Kasbah, she’s discovered in a cave by Bill Murray’s jaded rock promoter.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2016

And you could also drive in the incomparable Atlas Mountains, where you could throw a bash at the Kasbah Tamadot luxury resort and its nomadic owner, Richard Branson.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2016

We were out again later with a guide—Hadj Riffi he called himself—bent on a visit to the Kasbah, or fortress of the city.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

The overnight raid in the old city, or kasbah, of Nablus, was one of the deadliest in the West Bank in 2022 and comes at a time of escalating tensions.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

While she was there, she stumbled across a glorious kasbah in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, a 45-minute drive south of Marrakech.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2014

It was not until the airship was hovering exactly over the flat roof of the kasbah that they knew, from shouts below, that the strange visitant had been observed.

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang

Before Frouga, one of our next camping-grounds, was reached, we passed a kasbah which six years ago was in the possession of a kaid, who may or may not be still alive, in prison.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

There, leaning against one of the stout columns, within the black darkness of the Moorish arch, Tom scanned the kasbah, looming white in the moonlight, and meditated.

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang