Casablanca

English

Etymology

From Spanish Casablanca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæsəˈblæŋkə/

Proper noun

Casablanca

2. The capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
   • 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Major Strasser:

     My dear Mademoiselle, perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca, human life is cheap. Good night, Mademoiselle.

Derived terms

• Casablancan

Translations

city of Morocco

• Akan: Kasablanka
• Arabic: الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء f (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ), كَازَابْلَانْكَا f (kāzāblānkā) (uncommon)

  Moroccan Arabic: الدار البيضا f

• Belarusian: Касабла́нка f (Kasablánka)
• Bengali: কাসাব্লাঙ্কা (kaśablaṅka), দারুল বয়জা (darul boẏja)
• Bulgarian: Казабла́нка f (Kazablánka)
• Catalan: Casablanca f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵏⴼⴰ (anfa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達爾貝達 / 达尔贝达 (zh) (Dá'ěr-Bèidá), 卡薩布蘭卡 / 卡萨布兰卡 (zh) (Kǎsàbùlánkǎ)

• Corsican: Casablanca f
• Czech: Casablanca (cs) f
• Danish: Casablanca
• Dutch: Casablanca n
• Esperanto: Kazablanko
• Estonian: Casablanca (et)
• Farefare: Kasablanka
• Finnish: Casablanca (fi)
• French: Casablanca (fr) f
• Georgian: კასაბლანკა (ḳasablanḳa)
• German: Casablanca (de) n
• Greek: Καζαμπλάνκα (el) f (Kazamplánka)
• Hebrew: קזבלנקה f
• Hindi: कैसाब्लांका (kaisāblāṅkā), कासाब्लांका (kāsāblāṅkā)
• Hungarian: Casablanca (hu)
• Italian: Casablanca f
• Japanese: カサブランカ (Kasaburanka)
• Korean: 카사블랑카 (Kasabeullangka)
• Latin: Anfa f
• Latvian: Kasablanka f
• Lithuanian: Kasablanka f
• Macedonian: Казабла́нка f (Kazablánka)
• Marathi: कासाब्लांका n (kāsāblāṅkā)
• Norwegian: Casablanca
• Occitan: Casablanca f
• Persian: کازابلانکا (fa) (kâzâblânkâ), دارالبیضاء
• Polish: Casablanca (pl) f, Casablanka f
• Portuguese: Casablanca f
• Romanian: Casablanca f
• Russian: Касабла́нка (ru) f (Kasablánka)
• Scots: Casablanca
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Казабланка f

  Roman: Casablanca (sh) f

• Slovak: Casablanca f
• Slovene: Casablanca f
• Spanish: Casablanca (es) f
• Swedish: Casablanca
• Thai: กาซาบลังกา (gaa-saa blang-gaa)
• Ukrainian: Касабла́нка f (Kasablánka)
• Urdu: دار البیضاء (dar-ul-baizā)
• Vietnamese: Casablanca
• West Frisian: Kasablanka n

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkasablaŋka]

Proper noun

Casablanca f (relational adjective casablanský)

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)

Declension

Declension of Casablanca (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Casablanca
genitive	Casablancy, Casablanky
dative	Casablance
accusative	Casablancu, Casablanku
vocative	Casablanco, Casablanko
locative	Casablance
instrumental	Casablancou, Casablankou

Further reading

• “Casablanca”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Casablanca”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• Zeměpisná jména typu Casablanca a San Francisco, Naše řeč (1958)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Casablanca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.za.blɑ̃.ka/

Proper noun

Casablanca f

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)

Derived terms

• Casablancais m, Casablancaise f
• casablancais m, casablancaise f
• Casa (common name)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Casa Branca (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Casablanca, a calque of Portuguese Casa Branca.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.zaˈblɐ̃.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.zaˈblɐ̃.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.zaˈblɐ̃.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.zɐˈblɐ̃.kɐ/ [ka.zɐˈβlɐ̃.kɐ]

• Hyphenation: Ca‧sa‧blan‧ca

Proper noun

Casablanca f

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)

Spanish

la Plaza de Muhammad V por la noche en Casablanca, Marruecos

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese Casa Branca, itself calqued from Arabic الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ, “the white home”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasaˈblanka/ [ka.saˈβ̞lãŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: Ca‧sa‧blan‧ca

Proper noun

Casablanca f

1. Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)
2. Casablanca (a city in the province of Valparaíso, Chile)
3. (historical) A department of Chile

Related terms

• casablanqués