kasaba

From Arabic ⁧قَصَبَة⁩ (qaṣaba).

kasaba

1. city, town

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From Ottoman Turkish ⁧قصبه⁩ (kasaba), from Arabic ⁧قَصَبَة⁩ (qaṣaba).

• IPA^(key): /kasǎba/
• Hyphenation: ka‧sa‧ba

kasàba f (Cyrillic spelling каса̀ба)

1. (regional) town
   • 1942-1945, Ivo Andrić, chapter 1, in Na Drini Ćuprija:

     Kasaba je živele od mosta i rasla iz njega kao iz svoga neuništivog korena.

     The town owned its existence to the bridge and grew out of it as if from an imperishable root.

2. (regional) Podunk

From Spanish cazabe, from Taíno [Term?].

kasaba

1. cassava
   • 1975, “Basya Adyuku koni”, in Ursy M. Lichtveld, Jan Voorhoeve, editors, Creole drum. An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam‎, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     A krabdagu taki: - Angri e kiri mi ba. A di mi si yu e nyan, ne mi kon.
     Adyuku taki: - We san mi e nyan, mi no sabi efu yu sa nyan en. Na kasaba dokun mi tyari. Efu yu sa nyan en, dan mi sa gi yu.

     The crab-eating raccoon said: 'I'm starving, brother. When I saw that you're eating, I came over immediately.
     Adyuku said: 'I say, I don't know whether you'll want to eat what I'm eating. I brought cassava duckanoo. If you'll eat it, then I'll give it to you.

From Ottoman Turkish ⁧قصبه⁩, from Arabic ⁧قَصَبَة⁩ (qaṣaba).

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kasaba (definite accusative kasabayı, plural kasabalar)

1. casbah
2. town