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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
casbah

1738, from French casbah, from North African Arabic dialect kasba "fortress."

Wiktionary
casbah

alt. 1 The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. 2 (qualifier: by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. n. 1 The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. 2 (qualifier: by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.

WordNet
casbah

n. an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located [syn: kasbah]

Wikipedia
Casbah (disambiguation)

Casbah and similar may refer to:

  • The Casbah, a citadel in Algiers
  • Kasbah, or casbah, (Arabic: "القصبة") or Qassabah, a unique kind of medina, Islamic city, or fortress.
  • Kasbah of the Udayas, a kasbah in Rabat, Morocco.
  • The Casbah (US music venue), a music venue in San Diego, USA
  • The Casbah Coffee Club (also known as The Casbah), a former music venue in Liverpool, England
  • Casbah (film), a 1948 musical film
  • The color "Kasbah", a medium purple shade.
Casbah (film)

Casbah (1948) is a musical film directed by John Berry, starring Yvonne DeCarlo and Tony Martin, and released by Universal Studios.

Usage examples of "casbah".

The wealthy see the Anschluss as a danger to their position, but much more vulnerable and immediately threatened are the inhabitants of the Casbah.

Marlowe was rapidly finding out that the tubes of the rocket trash were a world within a world, the Casbah of the orbiting environment.

Stepping to the edge of the waist-high yellow tape stretching from the corner of the Nightwood Bar to the Casbah Motel, she evaluated the area.

Hurriedly she crested the hill and saw at the lighted windows of the Casbah Motel figures looking down into the parking lot.

Floyt in mind of the sewers of ancient Paris, stories of the long-gone Casbah, and pictures he'd seen of hobo jungles.

They had visited the sights of Ankh-Morpork, its crowded docks, its many bridges, its souks, its casbahs, its streets lined with nothing but temples.

Over in that Casbah, starved-looking, shave-needing ragheads lean out of spindly towers yodeling out of key.

Before he's even got it latched he's yodeling just like those guys up in the Casbah.

Before he’s even got it latched he’s yodeling just like those guys up in the Casbah.