alcazaba
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate with English casbah.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /alkaˈθaba/ [al.kaˈθa.β̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alkaˈsaba/ [al.kaˈsa.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -aba
- Syllabification: al‧ca‧za‧ba
Noun
[edit]alcazaba f (plural alcazabas)
- a Moorish fortress within or beside a walled city
- 2012, Isabel San Sebastián, Un Reino lejano, Random House Mondadori, page 210:
- no se transforma una alcazaba en castillo ni una mezquita en catedral para luego dejarla en manos del pueblo que crucificó a Cristo…
- one doesn’t turn a Moorish fortress into a castle, nor a mosque into a cathedral, only to leave it in the hands of the people that crucified Christ…
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “alcazaba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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