alcassaba

== Catalan == === Etymology === From Andalusian Arabic القصبة (al-qasába), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba); cognate to English casbah and Spanish alcazaba. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central) [əl.kəˈsa.βə] IPA(key): (Balearic) [əl.kəˈsa.bə] IPA(key): (Valencia) [al.kaˈsa.ba] === Noun === alcassaba f (plural alcassabes) a fortress inside a walled city (synecdochically) the medina, the older part of a city in North Africa ==== Related terms ==== alcàsser === Further reading === “alcassaba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026